Cultural Memory Memorials and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes
important source material in the three distinct areas of critical theory memoir and memorial
art. The book first shows how affect theorists have increasingly complemented more traditional
archival research through the use of academic memoir. This theoretical piece is then applied to
memoir works by Caribbean writers Dionne Brand and Patrick Chamoiseau and the final case study
in the book interprets as memorial art Kara Walker's ephemeral 80 000 pound sugar sculpture of
2014. Memory as method memory as archive memorial as affect: this book looks at the interplay
between archival sources on the one hand and the affective memories both personal and
collective that flow from around and into the constantly shifting record of the past.
