In
Mapping Memory, Kaitlin M. Murphy investigates the use of memory as a means of contemporary sociopolitical intervention.
Mapping Memory focuses specifically on visual case studies, including documentary film, photography, performance, new media, and physical places of memory, from sites ranging from the Southern Cone to Central America and the U.S.–Mexican borderlands. 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 analyzing the performative elements, or strategies, of visual texts—such as embodiment, reenactment, haunting, and the performance of material objects and places Murphy elucidates how memory is both anchored in and extracted from specific bodies, objects, and places. Drawing together diverse theoretical strands, Murphy originates the theory of “memory mapping”, which tends to the ways in which memory is strategically deployed in order to challenge official narratives that often neglect or designate as transgressive certain memories or experiences. Ultimately, Murphy argues, memory mapping is a visual strategy to ask, and to challenge, why certain lives are rendered visible and thus grievable and others not.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction 1
1. Affect, Haunting, and Mapping Memory 27
2. The Materiality of Memory: Touching, Seeing, and Feeling the Past 56
3. Performing Archives, Performing Ruins 88
4. The Politics of Seeing: Affect, Forensics, and Visuality in the US-Mexico Borderlands 120
Conclusion 153
Acknowledgments 159
Notes 161
Bibliography 181
Index 195
Circa l’autore
Kaitlin M. Murphy is Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona.
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