Memory Studies in the Nordic Countries: A Handbook /

Memory Studies in the Nordic Countries: A Handbook /

This peer-reviewed international handbook focuses on memory studies in the Nordic countries. It is a multi-disciplinary and transnational work that explores and maps characteristics and applications of the fast-growing field of memory studies in the Nordic region and in relation to the global contex...

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Other Authors: Guðmundsdóttir, Gunnþórunn (Editor), Savolainen, Ulla (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Brill's Handbook Series in Memory Studies ; 1.
Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Literature and Cultural Studies.

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Call Number: D410

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on contributors
  • 1 Memory in the Nordic Countries
  • Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir and Ulla Savolainen
  • PART 1
  • Agents and Agencies of Memory
  • 2 Queer Memory
  • Riikka Taavetti, Hafdís Erla Hafsteinsdóttir and Anu Koivunen
  • 3 Indigenous Agency
  • Silke Reeploeg
  • 4 Colonialist Legacy and Public Commemoration: Denmark and the West Indies
  • Marianne Stecher-Hansen
  • 5 Memory Objects of Oceanic Colonialism
  • Magdalena Zolkos
  • PART 2
  • Politics of Memory and History
  • 6 State Redress and Memory Politics
  • Astrid Nonbo Andersen and Malin Arvidsson
  • 7 Mnemohistory of Stalinist Repression in Finland
  • Ulla Savolainen and Meeri Siukonen
  • 8 Russian Speakers in Finland and the Memory of World War II
  • Olga Davydova-Minguet
  • 9 Iceland's Foreign Policy Identities
  • Valur Ingimundarson
  • PART 3
  • Cultural Mediations of Memory
  • 10 Pre-modern Times
  • Pernille Hermann
  • 11 Audiovisual Memory and Nordic Cinema
  • Gunnar Iversen
  • 12 Recent Norwegian World War II Film, Television, and Theater Productions
  • Siemke Böhnisch, Anne Gjelsvik and Siri Hempel Lindøe
  • 13 Traumatic Memory in Literature
  • Riitta Jytilä
  • PART 4
  • Personal, Embodied, and Spatial Memories
  • 14 Multiperspectivity in Museums
  • Ene Kõresaar, Kirsti Jõesalu, Olli Kleemola and Anne Heimo
  • 15 Memory Work across Difference
  • Robert Nilsson Mohammadi, Sima Nurali Wolgast and Francesca Cerri
  • 16 Embodied Memory Encounters
  • Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto and Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro
  • 17 Emplaced Memories in the Urban Landscape
  • Ólafur Rastrick
  • Index.