Afterword: Bringing Memory Home: Location, Theory, Hybridity

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Notes

 1 Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 2008. Provincializing Europe. 2nd edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, xvi.

 2 ‘Between the past and the future: Challenging narratives of memory in Latin America’, hosted at Institute for the Study of the Americas, 23–24 November 2010.

 3 See Radstone, Susannah. 2011. What Place Is This? Transcultural Memory and the locations of Memory Studies. Transcultural Memory (Special Issue) parallax 61, Vol. 17 (4), 109–23.

 4 Chakrabarty, xvi–xvii.

 5 See note 1.

 6 Chakrabarty, 4.

 7 Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities. London: Verso.

 8 On some accounts, cultural memory's travels are nothing new and to conceive of memory ‘in place’ is to fall into the trap of thinking in terms of ‘the old fashioned container-culture approach’ Erll, Astrid. 2011. Travelling Memory. Transcultural Memory (Special Issue) parallax 61, Vol. 17 (4), 4–18; 8.

 9 There is much more to be said, here, about the relations between area studies and identity and why certain locations and areas come to matter in the ways that they do. But my own (of course entirely contingent and personal) experience suggests that the impetus to work ‘in’, say, Latin American or other Area Studies is derived if not from direct familial connections, then very often through affective ties with that location, so that identity becomes enmeshed with locality, region, nation.

10 Wood, Nancy. 1999. Vectors of Memory: Legacies of Trauma in Postwar Europe. New York and Oxford: Berg.

11 Of course I'm not suggesting that theories do ever come from ‘nowhere’. Every theory emerges from and is connected with a particular and specific intellectual history. But I am suggesting that theory can be deployed as though, and made to appear as though, it comes from nowhere.

12 Caruth, Cathy. 1992. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

13 Felman, Shoshana, and Dori Laub. 1992. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History. New York: Routledge.

14 ‘Between the past and the future: Challenging narratives of memory in Latin America’, University of London, 23–24 November 2010.

15 For a comprehensive bibliography of trauma theory see Radstone, Susannah, Walker, Janet and Schenker, Noah, ‘Trauma Theory’, Oxford Bibliographies Online. Cinema and Media Studies section (forthcoming).

16 Hirsch, Marianne. 1999. Projected Memory: Holocaust Photographs in Personal and Public Fantasy. In Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present, edited by Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe and Leo Spitzer. Hanover: University Press of New England. 3–23.

17 Hirsch, Marianne. 1999. Projected Memory: Holocaust Photographs in Personal and Public Fantasy. In Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present, edited by Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe and Leo Spitzer. Hanover: University Press of New England p. 10.

18 Hirsch, Marianne. 1999. Projected Memory: Holocaust Photographs in Personal and Public Fantasy. In Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present, edited by Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe and Leo Spitzer. Hanover: University Press of New England p. 13.

19 Hirsch, Marianne. 1999. Projected Memory: Holocaust Photographs in Personal and Public Fantasy. In Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present, edited by Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe and Leo Spitzer. Hanover: University Press of New England p. 16.