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Social Science Emigration & Immigration

Memory and Migration

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies

edited by Julia Creet & Andreas Kitzmann

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2014
Category
Emigration & Immigration, Essays
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442626881
    Publish Date
    Feb 2014
    List Price
    $48.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442620483
    Publish Date
    Feb 2014
    List Price
    $38.95

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Description

Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions, exile, banishment, and war on individual and collective memory. The ways in which memory affects cultural representation and historical understanding across generations is examined through case studies and theoretical approaches that underscore its mutability.

Memory and Migration is a truly interdisciplinary book featuring the work of leading scholars from a variety of fields across the globe. The essays are collaborative, successfully responding to the central theme and expanding upon the findings of individual authors. A groundbreaking contribution to an emerging field of study, Memory and Migration provides valuable insight into the connections between memory, place, and displacement.

About the authors

Julia Creet is an associate professor in the Department of English at York University.

Julia Creet's profile page

Andreas Kitzmann is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.

Andreas Kitzmann's profile page