Narrative's Reliance on Memory: The Case for an Interdisciplinary Exchange Between Memory and Narrative Studies

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This paper adds to Hyvärinen's (this issue) argument that narrative interest emerged from many separate incentives and sources in the social sciences. I expand his claim by suggesting that the rise of ‘the narrative turn’ has been helped by the popularity of the concept of collective memory across the humanities and social sciences, and that a further interdisciplinary exchange between the sociology of memory and narrative studies can benefit both. In the last ten years, there has been a good deal of progress in ‘memory studies’, both theoretical and conceptual. In order for this progress not to be hampered by a lack of cross-disciplinary and cross-case reading, the paper calls for a better interdisciplinary exchange. The paper focuses on the mutual advantages of such an exchange for enhancing the ability to place individual narratives within larger collective stories and to comprehend how narrative's reliance on memory makes time human and problematises it. The paper also debates the relationship between memory narratives and ‘the problem of the new’.View full textDownload full textKeywordsmemory, collective memory, memory studies, time, interdisciplinarityRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484520903342973