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Tagged: memory studies

New Article: National Identities, Personal Crises: Amnesia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

Catherine Charlwood Published Online: 2018-04-14 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0004 Abstract This article considers how Ishiguro’s 2015 novel about mass forgetting in post-Arthurian Britain adds to debates about what it means to be a human living within a society....

“Okay ladies, now let’s get in formation!”: Music Videos and the Construction of Cultural Memory

Laura M. F. Bertens Published Online: 2017-09-02 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0009 Abstract The paper explores strategies for constructing and perpetuating cultural memory through music videos, using Beyonce’s Formation (2016) and Janelle Monae’s Many Moons (2008) and Q.U.E.E.N. (2013)...