ABSTRACT
In Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective, researchers from five different continents explore the significance of family memory as an analytical tool and a research concept.
Family memory is the most important memory community. This volume illustrates the range and power of family memories, often neglected by memory studies dealing with larger mnemonic entities. This book highlights the potential of family memory research for understanding societies’past and present and the need for a more comprehensive and systematic use of family memories. The contributors explain how family memories can be a valuable resource across a range of settings pertaining to individual and collective identities, national memories, intergenerational transmission processes and migration, transnational and diasporic studies. This volume presents the past, present and future of family memory as a prospective field of memory studies and the role of family memory in intergenerational transmission of social and political values. Family memory of violent events and genocide is also looked at, with discussions of the Armenian Genocide, Russian Revolution and Rwandan Genocide.
This book will be an important read for cultural and oral historians; family historians; public historians; researchers in narrative studies, psychology, politics and international studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|52 pages
Private and Public Practices of Building Family Memory
chapter 3|15 pages
The Buarque de Holanda
part II|52 pages
Intergenerational Transmission of Social and Political Values
chapter 5|17 pages
Czech Family Stories of Communism
part III|48 pages
Family Memory of Violent Events and Genocide
chapter 8|16 pages
“Facts, Not Emotions”
chapter 10|15 pages
Exile and Soviet Memoirs
part IV|54 pages
Family Memory, Family Identity and Digital Media