The following are some noteworthy sources for those interested in creating a course on memory.
These sources are currently discussed in Susannah Radstone's recent article about the debates of memory's place within and outside academia in the first issue of Memory Studies.
These sources are currently discussed in Susannah Radstone's recent article about the debates of memory's place within and outside academia in the first issue of Memory Studies.
Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 1992), John Bodnar
When Memory Speaks (New York: Knopf, 1998), Jill Ker Conway
Social Memory (Blackwell, 1992), James Fentress and Chris Wickham
Migrant Belongings: Memory, Space and Identity (Berg, 2000), Anne-Marie Fortier
"'The Memoir Problem'", Paula S. Fass in Reviews in American History 34(1): 107-23
Wulf Kansteiner's "Finding Meaning in Memory: A Methodological Critique of Collective Memory Studies" in History and Theory 41(2): 179-97
The Ethics of Memory (Cambridge, 2002), Avashai Margalit
Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past (Columbia University Press, 1996), Pierre Nora.
Theories of Memory: A Reader (Edinburgh University Press), Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead
The Rossington and Whitehead anthology is luckily available here in the States. The most seminal of these sources is the Nora monograph.
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