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Telling Memory’s Story

Memory Studies from the Past to the Future

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Part of the book series: Transgressions ((TRANS))

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How can we start to tell memory’s story? If the narrative of the emergence and history of memory studies is difficult to inscribe, the envisioning of its most productive future(s) is no less problematic. There are, to begin with, many different and competing views of what constitutes, or what ought to constitute, this emergent subject area (and there are competing views, also, about whether memory studies is best described, indeed, asa subject).

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Radstone, S. (2013). Telling Memory’s Story. In: Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Susann, A., Pithouse-Morgan, K. (eds) Productive Remembering and Social Agency. Transgressions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-347-8_16

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