Challenging waves of memory: intersections of rhetoric, politics, and grassroots narratives in contemporary memory studies: The Politics and Rhetoric of Collective Remembering, by John E. Richardson and Tommaso M. Milani, Routledge, 2024, $198.00 (hardcover): Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches, by Brett Ashley Kaplan, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, $170.75 (hardcover)
The field of memory studies has traditionally been framed through a linear, wave-based model that assumes theoretical and methodological substitution over time. However, this essay challenges the limitations of this zero-sum logic, particularly regarding the third and fourth waves of contemporary me...
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 592 - 603 |
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