Title Mapping memory : visuality, affect, and embodied politics in the Americas / Kaitlin M. Murphy

Edition First edition Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations Series Fordham scholarship online Fordham scholarship online Contents Introduction -- Affect, haunting, and mapping memory -- The materiality of memory : touching, seeing, and feeling the past -- Performing archives, performing ruins -- The politics of seeing : affect, forensics, and visuality in the US-Mexico borderlands -- Conclusion Summary In 'Mapping Memory', Kaitlin M. Murphy analyzes a range of visual memory practices that have emerged in opposition to political discourses and visual economies that suppress certain subjects and overlook past and present human rights abuses. From the Southern Cone to Central America and the US-Mexico borderlands, and across documentary film, photography, performance, memory sites, and new media, she compares how these visual texts use memory as a form of contemporary intervention 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-194) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Collective memory -- Political aspects -- Latin America Collective memory -- Social aspects -- Latin America Visual sociology -- Latin America PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology. ART -- Performance. Visual sociology Latin America Form Electronic book ISBN 9780823282555 0823282554 9780823284818 0823284816

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