Beyond the Archive

Memory, Narrative, and the Autobiographical Process

Jens Brockmeier (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-091362-5 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

This book forces readers to radically rethink the idea of memory as an archive of the past. Examining the notion of remembering in the neurosciences, humanities, social studies, and in key works of autobiographical literature, these far-ranging studies shed new light on the narrative dynamic of remembering, forgetting, and identity.

Our longstanding view of memory and remembering is in the midst of a profound transformation. This transformation does not only affect our concept of memory or a particular idea of how we remember and forget; it is a wider cultural process. In order to understand it, one must step back and consider what is meant when we say memory. Brockmeier's far-ranging studies offer such a perspective, synthesizing understandings of remembering from the neurosciences, humanities, social studies, and in key works of autobiographical literature and life-writing. His conclusions force us to radically rethink our very notion of memory as an archive of the past, one that suggests the natural existence of a distinctive human capacity (or a set of neuronal systems) enabling us to "encode," "store," and "recall" past experiences.

Now, propelled by new scientific insights and digital technologies, a new picture is emerging. It shows that there are many cultural forms of remembering and forgetting, embedded in a broad spectrum of human activities and artifacts. This picture is more complex than any notion of memory as storage of the past would allow. Indeed it comes with a number of alternatives to the archival memory, one of which Brockmeier describes as the narrative approach. The narrative approach not only permits us to explore the storied weave of our most personal form of remembering--that is, the autobiographical--it also sheds new light on the interrelations among memory, self, and culture.

Jens Brockmeier is a professor at The American University of Paris. With a background in psychology, philosophy, and language studies, his interests are in issues of human identity, mind, and language, which he has examined in a variety of cultural contexts and under conditions of health and illness.

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: The Memory Crisis
2. Imagining Memory: The Archive Disintegrates
3. Shaping Memory: History, Metaphor, and Narrative
4. Interpreting Memory: The Narrative Alternative
5. Dissecting Memory: Unraveling the Autobiographical Process
6. Creating the Memory of Oneself: Narrative Identity
7. Inhabiting a Culture of Memory: The autobiographical Process as a Form of Life
8. Dissolving the Time of Memory: The autobiographical Process as Temporal Self-Localization
9. Beyond time: The Autobiographical Process as Search Movement
10. Reframing Memory

References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Narrative Psychology
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	234 x 155 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
ISBN-10	0-19-091362-2 / 0190913622
ISBN-13	978-0-19-091362-5 / 9780190913625
Zustand	Neuware