Ef/Facing Critical Times: Dialectics of Forgetting and Remembering in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero

Abstract

[eng] Drawing on the different authors who have contributed to his edited volume, Memory, Trauma and World Politics, política! scientist Duncan Bell has affirmed that "[w]e are living ... through a 'memory boom', a 'memory fest', ali beholden to a 'cult of memory"' (2006, 25). In his article in this volume, "Notes on the Memory Boom", the historian Jay Winter identifies two different moments in the pervasiveness of memory as the foci of artistic and scholarly interest since the tum of the twentieth century