Recently added articles from Cultural Analysis:
Introduction to cultural analysis Volume 7, special issue: memory.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Even beginning to speak of memory is difficult, because what is memory? If it exists, which it must, then where is it located? A list of possible answers includes books, petroglyphs, neurons, traditions, narratives, architecture, film, and oak trees. Different disciplines address the ...
"Performative Narrativity": Palestinian identity and the performance of catastrophe.
Jan 01, 2008; ... I have advised you my heart, and why did not you take my advice? We became an intoxicated people who go to sleep and wake up in the love of their homeland. Oh [ ...] you, my body that is torn into two halves, a living one and another that lived, and the living half is left for ...
"Where was I?": personal experience narrative, crystallization and some thoughts on tradition memory.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Several years ago, I was rather surprised when one of my daughter's friend's parents asked me if I could help her with brain surgery in a few weeks' time. She assured me that she was, in fact, a medical doctor and a practicing surgeon and that the request was sincere. We would not be ...
Through the "Eye of the Skull": memory and tradition in a travelling landscape.
Jan 01, 2008; ... It has been a privilege to research the cultural traditions and creativity of the Scottish Travelling People, (1) an indigenous and traditionally nomadic group credited with the guardianship of one of the richest oral cultures in Europe. (Neat 1996, vii) The pioneering collection work of ...
In anticipation of a post-memory boom syndrome.
Jan 01, 2008; ... It would seem that at any given moment an academic journal is publishing an article, perhaps even a themed issue, on memory. We are evidently witnessing what Jay Winter has aptly labeled a "memory boom" (2000). The number of publications is overwhelming. The ISI Web of Knowledge, which ...