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Memory Constructions and Their Limits
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Titel: |
Memory Constructions and Their Limits |
In: | Orbis Litterarum, 66, 2011, 6, S. 448-467 |
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Wiley
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Umfang: | 448-467 |
ISSN: |
0105-7510 1600-0730 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1600-0730.2011.01033.x |
Zusammenfassung: | <jats:p>In ‘Karl Jaspers: A citizen of the world’ (1957) Hannah Arendt points to the troubled role of memory in a globalized culture. She claims that world citizenship can harbour no reference to a shared local past or a collective vision of a shared future. In contrast, Caribbean authors like Derek Walcott or Édouard Glissant hold that on such conditions memory is of another kind: local experience is always a blend of various transcultural cultures and histories. At the same time, they are always constructed in a process of the present, and this presence reveals the composite and translocal nature of our experiences. Memories are therefore cultural sites for negotiations of cultural values and identities. The paper locates two processes in which literature plays an active role: travel across cultural boundaries of the images that mould our memories, and negotiations we carry out through the media of expression contrasting various possibilities for memory constructions. Core texts are Derek Walcott’s epic poem <jats:italic>Omeros</jats:italic> (1990), Imre Kertész’s essay ‘Who owns Auschwitz?’ (2001), Hans Staden’s travel account <jats:italic>Warhaftig’ Historia</jats:italic> (1557) and poems by Paul Celan (1952, 1967).</jats:p> |
Format: | E-Article |
Quelle: | Wiley (CrossRef) |
Sprache: | Englisch |