Moving Testimony: Human Rights, Palestinian Memory, and the Transnational Public Sphere

Kennedy, Rosanne

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“…In her studies of the transnational travel of various local memories such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Indonesian killings of suspected communists in 1965–1966, Kennedy (2014 , 2016 ) has tackled the domesticating effects of transcultural memorial forms. In the human rights interventions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict she highlights the impact of the global memory imperative and the discourses of witness testimony, suffering and trauma.…”

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“…In focusing specifically on the Goldstone Mission, which was the investigation by the United Nations Human Rights Council into the Israeli attack on Gaza in 2008, and the popular remediation of its report in The Nation in 2011, she shows how that remediation de-territorialised and reframed the testimonies given in the context of the mission for the American public sphere. Kennedy (2014) argues that in that publication ‘the process of domestication occurs through the selection of testimonies that are included in the report, how they are framed and edited, the discourses they use, and the tropes they exemplify – all of which humanises the Palestinians and potentially makes it easier for Americans to identify with them’ (p. 70). 6 While Kennedy studies the domestication of deterritorialised testimonies for the national American public, I argue that domestication can also happen in global memory culture through the tropes that circulate there.…”

Section: What Happens In Translation? Domestication and Foreignisatiomentioning

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“… 6. Kennedy (2014 : 68) interestingly notes that in order to perform the cultural translation the signs of the linguistic translation of the testimonies are erased and a domesticating linguistic translation is provided that eliminates the repetitions and awkward English expressions. …”

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Born translated memories: Transcultural memorial forms, domestication and foreignisation

Laanes

2021

Memory Studies

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This article offers translation as a new model for conceptualising the transnational travel of memories that operates through transcultural memorial forms. It draws on translation studies, world literature studies and receptions studies to describe the domesticating and foreignising effects of memories that are ‘born translated’ and the ways they are received. The second part of the article discusses Sofi Oksanen’s novel Purge as a translation of memories of Soviet state terror through the transcultural memorial form of war rape and its foreignising effects in the local context of remembering of these events.

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Born translated memories: Transcultural memorial forms, domestication and foreignisation

Laanes

2021

Memory Studies

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“…The research by De Cesari and Rigney (2014) responds to this challenge as it focuses on the circulation, articulation, and scales, where articulation and circulation can be understood as processes that allow memory to transcend scales. Investigating place and space more in detail, Kennedy (2014) examines the processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization of memory. Astrid Erll's work (2011: 9) on traveling memory reveals the need to critically explore sites of memory and open up the discussion to manifestations of transnational memory that unfolds "across and beyond cultures".…”

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The Creation of Transnational Memory Spaces: Professionalization and Commercialization

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Kappler

2019

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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In the age of globalization, local memories of past violence are often dislocated from their material places as remembrance is transpiring in transnational memory spaces. Historical events and commemorative memory practices increasingly transcend national boundaries and change the way memories of historical violence, atrocity, and genocide are represented in the transnational memoryscape. This article explores how the professionalization and commercialization of museums and memorials of genocide and crimes against humanity are modes of "making the past present" and "the local global". Furthermore, professionalization and commercialization are processes through which local memories are translated into global discourses that are comprehensible to and recognizable by a global audience. In this article, we disentangle local memory places (understood as material, physical sites) from transnational memory spaces (understood as immaterial, ideational spaces) in order to investigate the transformation of local places of memory into transnational spaces of memory. At the same time, we show that, while these processes are often understood interchangeably, professionalization and commercialization are separate mechanisms and tend to be used strategically to translate memory discourses to specific audiences. These two processes can be seen as producing a standardized memorial site and a homogenization of memory in the transnational memory space. The article illustrates this theoretical reasoning with empirical findings from fieldwork in South Africa, where we zoom in on Robben Island outside Cape Town, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, where we focus on the Galerija 11/07/95 in Sarajevo, which commemorates the atrocities committed in Srebrenica in 1995.

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“…Human rights processes-such as United Nations (UN) inquiries and Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings, and their mediation in cultural forms including reports, literature, theater, memorials, and museums-have provided rich archives for tracking the movements of memory as it crosses local, national, and transnational borders and cultures (Kennedy, 2014). 1 Analysis of such archives has enabled memory scholars to map connections between the remembrance of atrocity, trauma, and suffering in a range of geopolitical and geographical contexts.…”

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Reparative transnationalism: The friction and fiction of remembering in Sierra Leone

Kennedy

2018

Memory Studies

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Analysis of the "productive frictions" that emerge when cosmopolitan paradigms are implemented in local contexts may nuance accounts of how and when memory travels, and when and why it stalls, thereby contributing to a better understanding of the cross-border travels of memory. I explore the frictions of truth-telling in Sierra Leone as articulated in ethnographic analyses of local engagement with the normative paradigm of public remembering and truth-telling promoted by the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and mediated in Aminatta Forna's post-conflict novel, The Memory of Love. While the Truth and Reconciliation Commission disappointed victims' expectations for meaningful transnational relationships, the novel performs and models what I call reparative transnationalism. Through the intimate but public form of literature it imagines entangled transnational futures that work toward the promise of transnational belonging promoted in much writing on transnational memory.

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Moving Testimony: Human Rights, Palestinian Memory, and the Transnational Public Sphere

Cited by 15 publications

References 9 publications

Born translated memories: Transcultural memorial forms, domestication and foreignisation

Born translated memories: Transcultural memorial forms, domestication and foreignisation

The Creation of Transnational Memory Spaces: Professionalization and Commercialization

Reparative transnationalism: The friction and fiction of remembering in Sierra Leone

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