What Place Is This? Transcultural Memory and the Locations of Memory Studies
What Place Is This? Transcultural Memory and the Locations of Memory Studies
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这是什么地方？
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2011
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Susannah Radstone
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作者：
Susannah Radstone
我们都知道那种感觉--在一个不可思议或过度的空间里找到自己，或者更好地说，失去自己的经历。在离开电影院时，我们的周围环境，即使是熟悉的，也可能由于电影院想象的空间和场所的持续存在而呈现出一种陌生感。远离所爱的人，我们发现自己既不是我们所在的地方，也不是他们所在的地方。这些迷失方向的经验表明，竞争的物质和心理现实的位置。我们所处的位置和我们感觉到的位置可能并不一致。正如我的第一个例子所显示的，这些对空间错位和分离的恐惧可以被电影以及其他沉浸式媒体触发。但是，它们也可以通过实际的背井离乡和重新安置产生--通过流亡、流亡和移民的经历，当我们所处的现实与我们所感觉到的和我们渴望的地方特别不协调时。这些令人痛苦、不受欢迎和被迫搬迁的现象在当代普遍存在，以及更有特权和更有计划的全球交通模式的普遍存在，似乎使长期依附和原地不动变得不合时宜。沿着这些实际的移动性，数字领域的虚拟移动性似乎可以使我们的家和它的位置，以及它的所有历史和情感维度，仅仅是偶然的，总体上是无关紧要的。尽管如此，这种定位性仍然是完全重要的--尽管是复杂的--不仅可以从个人错位体验的不安和愉悦方面收集到，而且可以从不断扩大的怀旧文学作品中收集到。虽然在这一文学的强烈趋势，试图避免将移民和流亡与怀旧的理解为受害者，强调，而不是，怀旧的能力，以帮助在新的土地建设newhomes，这种文学点，然而，持续的意义的位置，特别是，“家”的记忆，在目前的意义和情感层面的生活。
We all know how it feels – that experience of finding ourselves, or perhaps better put, losing ourselves, in an uncanny or excessive space. On leaving the cinema, our surroundings, even when familiar, may take on a strangeness lent to them by the continuing presence of the cinema’s imaginary spaces and places. Far from a loved one, we find ourselves neither where we, or they, are. These disorientating experiences demonstrate the competing material and psychical realisms of location. Where we are, and where we feel we are, may not coincide. These apprehensions of spatial dislocation and disjuncture can be triggered, asmyfirst example shows, by the cinema, aswell as by other immersive media. But they can be generated, too, by actual uprootings and relocations – by experiences of exiledom, refugeedomandmigration,when theactuality of our locationmay jarparticularly harshlywithwherewe feelwe are andwherewe long to be. The contemporary ubiquity of these distressing, unwelcome and forced disand re-locations, as well as the pervasiveness ofmore privileged and plannedmodes of global transit can appear to render long-term attachments to, and locatedness in place anachronistic. Along with these actual mobilities, the virtual mobilities of the digital realm can seem to render our place of home and its location, with all of its historical and affective dimensions, merely contingent and on the whole, irrelevant. That locatedness remains nevertheless utterly – though complexly – significant can be gleaned not only from the uneasy as well as pleasureable aspects of individual experiences of dislocation but from, for instance, the ever-expanding literature on nostalgia. Though a strong trend in this literature seeks to avoid associating migrancy and exiledom with an understandingof nostalgia as sufferingvictimhood, stressing, rather, nostalgia’s capacity to aid in the construction of newhomes in new lands, this literature points, nevertheless, to the continuing significance of location, and, particularly, memories of ‘home’, for the meaning-making and affective dimensions of life in the present.