A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies

This conveniently arranged handbook offers a clear overview of current research in the international and multi-/interdisciplinary field of Cultural Memory Studies. Concepts of this area are discussed in sections on history, cultural history, the social, political and philosophical sciences, psychology, literary studies, and media studies. An important book for researchers, lecturers and students.

Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook is a survey of the complex and disparate field of cultural/collective memory studies. The volume, edited by Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nünning, provides an account of research in this broad field that is at once systematic, historical, genealogical and disciplinary. Bringing together contributions from history, philosophy, literary studies, sociology, political science, media studies and psychology, the volume examines relationships between culture and memory, their individual and social aspects, mnemonic products, and processes of remembrance. The negotiation of interdisciplinary links makes this handbook a first step towards the development of a meta-concept of memory in sociocultural contexts.

I haven't finished reading it, and it is a reference book anyway. From what I have read it is excellent, and the authors of some chapters are well known to me and distinguished people. A good book to be highly recommended