Murphy, Kaitlin M.
Mapping Memory
- ISBN 13:
- 9780823282531
- author:
- Murphy, Kaitlin M.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.2 centimetres (0.29 kg
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, Semiotics & Theory,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Mapping Memory explores how memory is used as a means of sociopolitical intervention in contemporary culture. Kaitlin M. Murphy examines visual case studies, including documentary film, photography, performance, and physical places of memory, to understand the role of memory in shaping our understanding of the world.
Murphy develops new frameworks for analyzing how visual culture performs as an embodied agent of memory and witnessing, arguing that visuality is inherently performative. By examining the strategies used in visual texts, such as embodiment, reenactment, haunting, and the performance of material objects and places, Murphy reveals how memory is both anchored in and extracted from specific bodies, objects, and places.
The book introduces the concept of "memory mapping", which highlights the ways in which memory is strategically deployed to challenge official narratives that often neglect or designate certain memories or experiences as transgressive. This approach offers a new perspective on the role of memory in shaping our understanding of identity, politics, and culture.
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