Debra Kelly Deeds which populate the dimensions of space and which reach their end when someone dies may cause us wonderment, but one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies in every final agony unless there is a universal memory as the theosophists have conjectured [â¦] What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?â (Jorge Luis Borges, âThe witnessâ) This is a collection of articles that aims to explore the notion of bearing witness through a variety of âtextsâ â from more âestablishedâ forms in literary works and journals but also in personal stories transmitted orally (then âcollectedâ by, for example, historians, anthropologists, documentary filmmakers), to witnessing that takes place on other âtextualâ sites such as the body and to forms opened up by new technologies. This collection is itself also a witness â to the tenth anniversary of the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural postgraduate degree in Cultural Memory at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies which has made a significant contribution in a variety of ways to the development of memory studies in the U.K. and beyond. The authors of the articles and the review articles that
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The witness and the text: text(ure)s of memory
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Follow Journal of Romance Studies
, Volume 9 (3)
Berghahn Books – Dec 1, 2009
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