Memory studies has, in only a few decades, produced insights in two inter-related processes. First, memory scholars theorized how representations of the past become socially shared. Secondly, they theorized how these cultural and collective memories circulate and are being re-actualized in different contexts. But critiques of the field have targeted the metaphorical and reified nature of cultural memory concepts. This article argues that some concepts developed in social scientific narrative studies could provide cultural memory scholars with a precise and less metaphorical vocabulary to understand how people make sense of non-autobiographical pasts in different interactional contexts. In particular, the article focusses on how positioning theory and unexplained events in narrative pre-construction assist analysis of the flexibility of the remembering self in everyday interaction. The examples in this article concern narrations of the Second World War and Holocaust gathered during fieldwork in the contemporary town of Auschwitz in Poland.

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文化记忆及其再实现

记忆研究在短短几十年内就对两个相互关联的过程产生了见解。首先，记忆学者对过去的表征如何在社会上共享进行了理论分析。其次，他们理论化了这些文化和集体记忆如何流通并在不同的背景下重新实现。但对该领域的批评主要针对文化记忆概念的隐喻性和具体化性质。本文认为，社会科学叙事研究中发展的一些概念可以为文化记忆学者提供精确且较少隐喻的词汇，以了解人们如何在不同的互动背景下理解非自传式的过去。尤其，本文重点讨论叙事预建构中的定位理论和无法解释的事件如何协助分析日常互动中记忆自我的灵活性。本文中的例子涉及在波兰当代小镇奥斯维辛进行实地考察时收集到的有关第二次世界大战和大屠杀的叙述。