Amnesia
Cultural Memory, Reconciliation, and Communal Accountability in the Americas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4784713 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lessie Jo Frazier (Indiana University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 146-160 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/1477570015z.000000000104 |
| OpenAlex | W2205374160 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Contributing to debates on the status of comparison in transnational American studies, this essay offers a morphologically comparative approach to memory’s cultural politics in conflict resolution, juxtaposing two histo-ries — one ‘geo-political’ (nation-state, transatlantic) and the other ‘micro-history’ (small-town, regional) — whose ensuing negotiations unsettle paradigms of silencing and forgetting, especially as these pertain to ‘reconciliation’. Offering an alternative to predominantly psychoanalytic treatments of cultural memory and power, this essay employs morphological analysis and queer theory to explore cultural amnesia through blending ethnographic and media sources on the politics of it in the assignment of accountability and belonging
Accountability · Amnesia · Cognitive psychology · Collective memory · Cultural memory · Ethnography · Forgetting · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Queer · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |