Maryam Adjam
Biographic Data
| ID | 8574191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maryam Adjam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maryam |
| FAMILY NAME | Adjam |
| SIGNATURE | ADJAM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0134-166X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Poetics of Postmemory
Focusing on postmemory, the memories of the third generation of Estonian refugees in Sweden today, tracing remnants of family tales in the aftermath of World War Two and the flight from Estonia to Sweden in 1944, this paper analysis the concept of ‘afterness’ in memory work and the role of imagination in rendering memories legible and visible. Framed as witnesses of the master narrative of history, a narrative focusing the chain of events, establ…
Katastrofens lokala poetik
Justifying its existence and acts as a part of a civilizing and modernizing mission; the colonial order has made a deep mark on definitions of history in colonized regions. Here the history is often described as a series of zero-points, of completed phases on the civilization-ladder for moving on toward a concrete Modernism. In this kind of history general trauma, such as drastic interruption of the modern line of progress, is often a landmark fo…
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Katastrofens lokala poetik
Justifying its existence and acts as a part of a civilizing and modernizing mission; the colonial order has made a deep mark on definitions of history in colonized regions. Here the history is often described as a series of zero-points, of completed phases on the civilization-ladder for moving on toward a concrete Modernism. In this kind of history general trauma, such as drastic interruption of the modern line of progress, is often a landmark fo…
The Poetics of Postmemory
Focusing on postmemory, the memories of the third generation of Estonian refugees in Sweden today, tracing remnants of family tales in the aftermath of World War Two and the flight from Estonia to Sweden in 1944, this paper analysis the concept of ‘afterness’ in memory work and the role of imagination in rendering memories legible and visible. Framed as witnesses of the master narrative of history, a narrative focusing the chain of events, establ…
Afterlife (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Collective memory (1 works) · Estonian (1 works) · Hearsay (1 works) · Memory work (1 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (1 works) · Narrative (1 works) · Narrative Theory and Analysis (1 works) · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior (1 works)