FACULTY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY | Seminar
Mix Tape Memories. Movement and Difference in Life Writing

In this seminar, Anders Høg Hansen will present his new book "Mix Tape Memories: Movement and Difference in Life Writing".

This book ‘plays up’ stories of mostly unknown figures and their journeys through a life affected by movement, and a search for home. It engages with individuals and groups whose passions have carried the subjects through ‘uncharted’ or unhomely territories, here told in a series of ‘tracks’ depicting their roles in community memories and histories. Side A engages with individual journeys, such as Lewis, the American black literature book seller; the civil rights activist, Izzy, an American-Swedish folklorist; Eugene, a black classical pianist; and Pi, the Jew transported to Sweden during WWII. Side B focuses on communal histories and alternative educational and artistic spaces, addressing life writing and memory in German comic books; alternative educational spaces in Israel-Palestine and Africa, and ‘small press passions’ of zines/newsletter culture.

Tellers and their interpreters are mediating identities where nationality, race, and class (and other markers of identity) have influenced selfhood and collective belonging – revealing how individuals and outsider cultures have the power to influence dominant cultures and inspire societal change.

This seminar is hybrid – K3 studio or Zoom room. Doors open at 13.00 and the presentation and discussion starts at 13.15.

Meeting ID: 625 2294 9096

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Mix Tape Memories: Movement and Difference in Life Writing (Springer Link's website)