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Memory – personal and collective – is central to our lives. We dedicate institutions and subjects to the preservation of knowledge and artefacts, and we are in constant struggle over forms of official commemoration. In this course, we will look at memory as a concept and consider how the archive works and doesn't work. We will analyse official memorials (such as the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC) and think about the politics of collecting and preserving official documents. We will also look at personal ways of preserving memories, read a memoir and think about memory loss, for example in dementia.
Please purchase and read:
- Robyn Schiff, Revolver (University of Iowa Press, 2008)
- Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters. A Beat Memoir (Penguin Books, 1983.)
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