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Memory, Trauma, and Cultural Semiotics - An Extensive Review
Get PDFABSTRACT: The following review-article deals with three publications that have been
released in recent years, all of which can be read in the context of memory studies
through the mention of memory in their titles. It is evident that memory studies has
become a field of research that ranges from the humanities to the social sciences
to the natural sciences, with the only common denominator being the object of study
of memory. But what memory is, how memory is constituted, or how it can be analyzed
or even made measurable is where the publications discussed differ strikingly. The
aim of this review is therefore not to place the three publications in a singular
context but rather, by discussing their differences, to show how diverse memory studies
is as a field and to present what the breadth of different approaches that look beyond
oneʼs own disciplinary boundaries can offer regarding the future engagement with memory
in Scandinavian studies and especially in Scandinavian medieval studies.RÉSUMÉ: L’article de synthèse suivant traite de trois publications parues ces dernières
années, qui peuvent toutes être lues dans le contexte des études de la mémoire en
raison de la mention de la mémoire dans leur titre. Il devient évident que les études
de la mémoire sont devenues un champ de recherche qui s’étend des sciences humaines
aux sciences sociales en passant par les sciences naturelles, avec pour seul dénominateur
commun l’objet d’étude qu’est la mémoire. Toutefois, ce qu’est la mémoire, comment
elle est constituée ou comment elle peut être analysée ou même être rendue mesurable,
sont des points sur lesquels les publications discutées diffèrent de manière frappante.
L’objectif de cette étude n’est donc pas de placer les trois publications dans un
contexte singulier, mais plutôt, en discutant de leurs différences, de souligner la
diversité des études de la mémoire en tant que champ et de présenter ce que l’étendue
de différentes approches qui examinent au-delà de leurs propres frontières disciplinaires
peut offrir concernant l’engagement futur de la mémoire dans les études scandinaves
et en particulier dans les études médiévales scandinaves
Mads Bunch. Isak Dinesen Reading Søren Kierkegaard: On Christianity, Seduction, Gender, and Repetition.
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Exploring Transcultural Community: Realistic Visions in Sami (Norwegian-Danish) and Ojibwe (Canadian) Novels
Get PDFABSTRACT: This article compares the protagonists’ identity constitution in the novels
Og sådan blev det (2013) [And so it turned out] by Maren Uthaug (2013) and Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese (2014). Indigenous identity is historically and theoretically framed by political discourses and postcolonial theory. Indigenous concepts of land and story, concepts of cultural memory, western postmodern subject philosophy, and Indigenous research methods serve as a basis to explain the characters’ success in constituting their individual
Indigenous identity within ethnically and culturally diverse communities while finding
ways of mutual understanding, bridging the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous
People. The novels suggest visionary but realistic ways of constituting Indigenous
identity in transcultural communities and convey ethical values fundamental to all
human beings—regardless of ethnicity and culture
Anatoly Liberman. In Prayer and Laughter: Essays on Medieval Scandinavian and Germanic Mythology, Literature, and Culture.
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