The Politics of Empathy

Simine, Silke Arnold‐de

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“…28 Silke Arnold-de Simine reads Fouqué's treatment of the past in analogy to the contemporary development of the museum as an institution 'instrumental in establishing a sense of national history [and] identity'. 29 As such '… her practice of establishing tradition through the processes of musealisation -… was highly contemporary'. 30 Fouqué's concept of history thus corresponds to her concept of sociability: Both can be used to promote female political agency and both are characterized by the idea of cultural exchange.…”

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“…In her Geschichte der Moden [History of fashion], Fouqué 'projects an alternative path, a multiperspective everyday history which highlights communicative and cultural memory'. 75 The cultural transfer Fouqué undertakes in Die Vertriebenen functions in a similar way, as it allows her to develop an alternative model of the past: There is no isolated 'German' national past, but history in Die Vertriebenen is European history, where borders are constantly crossed.…”

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Gender, Memory, and Interculturality in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué’s Historical Novel Die Vertriebenen

Müller-Adams¹

2016

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111j o u r n a l f o r t h e s t u d y o f r o m a n t i c i s m s caroline de la motte Fouqué was one of the most productive women writers of the romantic and early restoration period in Germany. this author of numerous novels and shorter prose has been re-valued by gender-orientated scholarly research as a writer who 'transgressed a number of gender and class boundaries'.1 As an observer of the Zeitgeist Uns ist unser Vaterland fremd geworden; die Entwicklung der Zeit hat so viel daran verschoben, gerührt, beschnitten und hinzugethan, daß aus dem, was man National-Charakter nennt, ein Ding entstanden ist, von dem man nicht weiß, ob man darüber weinen oder lachen soll. Es thut uns daher Noth, das Eigenthümliche deutscher Natur aufzusuchen. Das aber können wir nur historisch-philosophisch … Wir sollen dem zu folge die Geschichte unsrer großen Stammväter prüfend beachten, das was war, mit dem vergleichen, was ist.[Our fatherland has become alien to us; it has been so much shifted, stirred, cut off and been added to by the development of the times that what we used to call 'national character' is now a thing, which one does not know whether to cry or laugh about.

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Gender, Memory, and Interculturality in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué’s Historical Novel Die Vertriebenen

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2016

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“…Linenthal (2001: 111), discussing commemoration of the Oklahoma City bombing, argues bereavement is ‘one of the only ways Americans can imagine themselves as one; being “together” with millions of others through expressions of mourning bypasses or transcends the many ways in which people are divided’. Memorials can establish a community which is ‘united in mourning and in the resolve to prevent the cause for such grief and suffering in the future’ (Arnold-de Simine, 2013: 76).…”

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“…The NMPJ does not need to create this prosthetic memory for visitors (who are not African American) to develop a personal connection to this past, precisely because it uses the rituals of mourning. As Silke Arnold-de Simine (2013: 125) explains, Butler’s theory means there is no need for prosthetic memory because it suggests that we are ‘implicated in the lives of others’ and this allows us to recognise our collective responsibility. The NMPJ can be seen as a model for the radical potential of mourning.…”

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‘Nothing is lost’: Mourning and memory at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Woodley

2022

Memory Studies

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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is the first national memorial to Black victims of lynching. Its purpose is to provoke a confrontation with the United States’ racial past, in the hope that truth will lead to racial justice. This article argues that in remembering the dead, the Lynching Memorial also allows and encourages visitors to mourn. During the peak of racial lynchings in the early twentieth century, it could be difficult or even dangerous for the bereaved to publicly mourn Black victims. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, therefore, provides a delayed opportunity for the Black community to mourn those losses. But it also encourages visitors of other races to mourn too. The memorial facilitates mourning through the visitors’ relationship to the monuments, and the echoing of Black mourning traditions. In publicly mourning for these victims, visitors acknowledge and insist on the grievability of Black lives, something which white supremacy has long sought to deny. This article, therefore, argues for the radical potential for mourning at sites of commemoration as a step towards justice.

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The Politics of Empathy

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Gender, Memory, and Interculturality in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué’s Historical Novel Die Vertriebenen

Gender, Memory, and Interculturality in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué’s Historical Novel Die Vertriebenen

‘Nothing is lost’: Mourning and memory at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice

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