Memory and the Language of Contention
Published on 21. March 2025
Book
Hardback
608 pages
978-90-04-69296-1 (ISBN)
Description
How does language shape the memory of activism? And how do memories, of hope or of repression, inflect the language used by social movements in the present day?
This edited volume, featuring international scholars across literary and cultural studies, anthropology, legal studies, and linguistics, shows how memories of activism live in the medium of language. It contends that working with, and working on, the historical resonance of words and linguistic commonplaces is a central feature of political contention.
This edited volume, featuring international scholars across literary and cultural studies, anthropology, legal studies, and linguistics, shows how memories of activism live in the medium of language. It contends that working with, and working on, the historical resonance of words and linguistic commonplaces is a central feature of political contention.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-69296-1 (9789004692961)
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Dr. Sophie van den Elzen teaches modern literature at Utrecht University and researches cultural memories of activism and language as a medium for social change. She is the author of Slavery in the International Women's Movement, 1832-1914: Memory Work and the Legacy of Abolitionism (CUP, 2025).
Ann Rigney is professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University. She directed the ERC-Funded project Remembering Activism (2019-2024) and recently co-edited The Visual Memory of Protest (2023). She is finishing a new book called Remembering Hope.
Ann Rigney is professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University. She directed the ERC-Funded project Remembering Activism (2019-2024) and recently co-edited The Visual Memory of Protest (2023). She is finishing a new book called Remembering Hope.