Abstract
Abstract
Memory studies has, in only a few decades, produced insights in two inter-related processes. First, memory
scholars theorized how representations of the past become socially shared. Secondly, they theorized how these cultural and
collective memories circulate and are being re-actualized in different contexts. But critiques of the field have targeted the
metaphorical and reified nature of cultural memory concepts. This article argues that some concepts developed in social scientific
narrative studies could provide cultural memory scholars with a precise and less metaphorical vocabulary to understand how people
make sense of non-autobiographical pasts in different interactional contexts. In particular, the article focusses on how
positioning theory and unexplained events in narrative pre-construction assist analysis of the flexibility of the remembering self
in everyday interaction. The examples in this article concern narrations of the Second World War and Holocaust gathered during
fieldwork in the contemporary town of Auschwitz in Poland.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Social Sciences (miscellaneous),History,Education
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