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1	Genom våra ögon : En komparativ litteraturanalys av Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid’s Tale och Octavia E. Butlers Kindred, utifrån forskningsfältet kulturella minnesstudier / Through Our Eyes : A comparative literary analysis of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred, based on the research field of cultural memory studies Adolfsson, Linnea January 2018 (has links) This essay’s primarily focus is on the common discourse about the persisting effects of the past in the present in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale(1985)and Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979).These novels are the testimonies of the protagonists Offred and Dana who shares their experience of traumatic violence and oppression. Dana, with her ability to time travel, will see her present time in clearer light as she experiences the life of a slave on an antebellum plantation. Offred, the Handmaiden owned by the totalitarian regime Gilead, portrays her contemporary life in parallel to remembering her former and thus describing Gilead’s increasing authority. Based on different theorists and concepts in the field of cultural memory studies, this essay examines the tension between memory and history, the distantness towards the past and the problematics with representations of traumatic events. As I argue that the voices of Dana and Offred calls attention to the importance of perspective and of sharing stories, they are also an act of hope, therapy and resistance; an act that also make possible a critique of the processes of the production of historical knowledge. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Octavia E. Butler Kindred Memory History Cultural memory studies Trauma Representation Prosthetic Memory Multidirectional Memory General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap
2	Kritisk broderikonst - nyhetsskildring och minnesarbete : Rufina Bazlovas politiska motnarrativ och omförhandlande av traditionella belarusiska textila symboler / The Critical Art of Embroidery - News Report and Memory Work : Rufina Bazlova´s Political Counter Narrative and Negotiation of Traditional Belarusian Textile Symbols Billsdotter Jonsson, Cecilia January 2023 (has links) In this MA thesis I want to examine if it is possible to be writing a historical narrative with other tools than words. Rufina Bazlova is a Belarusian textile artist, currently based in Prague, who is telling us her narrative about the falsified elections in Belarus held in August 2020. She does it using embroidery, strongly connected with traditional Belarusian symbols used in the crafts that has been an important source of belief in everyday life for women in Belarus since the early 11th century. What kind of narrative is the artist telling us? In what way can her embroidery be seen as cultural memories? I am using the methods formal analysis by Heinrich Wölfflin and iconography and iconology by Erwin Panofsky to explore the hidden meanings in five of Bazlovas embroidery pieces, Female solidarity, Parliament House, Streets of Belarus, Solidarity with Soligorsk and Run from a gun. They are all a part of the work of art named Belarusian Vyzyvanka. I am placing Bazlovas embroidery in the context of cultural memories by looking at them with the eyes of different researchers in the field of cultural memory studies. The thesis has a range from descripting the meaning of traditional textile symbols to implementing the methods of art history. I am continuing with placing the embroidery into the field of cultural memory studies and asking questions about freedom of speach and the political situation in Belarus today. I am looking back in the Belarusian history to find some of my answers and I am adding a transnational perspective to my examination. Belarus Cultural Memory Studies Embroidery Historiography Rufina Bazlova Transnational History Belarus broderier historieskrivning kulturella minnen Rufina Bazlova transnationell historia History of Ideas Idé- och lärdomshistoria
3	Verortung(en) des Ecocriticism in transkulturellen Zeiten : Eine Untersuchung zur Verknüpfung einer ökologisch orientierten Literaturwissenschaft mit Konzepten der kulturellen Gedächtnisstudien am Beispiel von Peter Handkes Die Obstdiebin / The Place(s) of Ecocriticism in Transcultural Times : A study linking Ecologically Oriented Literary Studies with concepts of Cultural Memory Studies using the example of Peter Handke's The Fruit Thief Lenz, Wiebke January 2021 (has links) The academic field of Ecocriticism has in recent years developed into an increasingly interdisciplinary, multifaceted field that no longer only concerns literary studies. This thesis aims to find a new angle that mostly has been overlooked by academics so far. It is therefore suggested to draw a connection between Ecocriticism and Cultural Memory Studies since both fields share interests in their considerations of place. The development of global and transcultural concepts in ecologically oriented literary studies, illustrated by Ursula Heise's concept of an eco-cosmopolitanism are discussed and related to new approaches in Cultural Memory Studies about Heimat (homeland) and belonging to certain places. The study then exemplifies these theoretical concepts by aiming for a close reading of Peter Handke's novel Die Obstdiebin (The Fruit-Thief) where traditional perceptions of Heimat and a local affiliation are criticized and simultaneously new, deterritorialized perspectives introduced. Ecocriticism Cultural Memory Studies home belonging place memory globalisation transculturality deterritorialization migration Peter Handke Ecocriticism kulturelle Gedächtnisstudien Heimat Zugehörigkeit Ort Globalisierung Transkulturalität Migration Deterritorialisierung Peter Handke Specific Languages Studier av enskilda språk

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