Scenic memory: Experience through time–space

Storytelling is at the heart of how we remember, with others as much as in solicitude, via internal imaginings. Narrative is recognised by many as a formative way in which acts of remembering are organised in experience, making reconstruction and reconsolidation more attainable - as individuals and collectivities. Yet the experience of memory pushes beyond narrative alone and emerges from specific scenes or settings, as much as time periods or stories. In this volume, authors from a range of disciplines point us to the Memoryscapes and geographies of memories – the material objects occupying space that interweave with multiple narratives about the past. This interdependency between the scene and narrative, the material and discursive, is what interests a growing number of authors in the field of memory studies (Brockmeier, 2015).