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Memory, Haunting, Discourse brings together the work of scholars from ten countries. In twenty articles, these scholars investigate various relationships between memory and haunting, memory and different discourses, and discourses and haunting, in most cases with a focus on particular artefacts, or particular means of expression: fiction, autobiography, poetry, experimental and popular film, videotaped interviews, and artworks, such as photography, paintings, and installations.The anthology is divided into three sections. The first section explores memory as a phenomenon in art and philosophy, the second how memory functions in particular cultural contexts, while the third section addressess specific issues, often involving memory and trauma, that concern gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and age in construction of identity, and that are related to the impact of and resistance to dominant, oppressive discourses Distrubution: www.bokus.com