Nowadays the issues of space and place pertain more than ever to the ongoing discussion about personal/regional/national identities. The worlds of private archives of memory often exist independently of political and administrative divisions, while dominant ideologies are often capable of re-defining national archives of memory through selective representation of the past. The way we remember our past and our heritage inscribes the space we live in: the places we remember and the places we wish to forget, the monuments we pull down and erect and the museums we build are only some of the signposts on the landscape of our cultural memory. The essays collected in this volume examine the role of places and spaces in the formation of both cultural practices and the existential experience of modern individual.

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Wojciech Kalaga is Professor of Literary Theory and English Literature at the University of Silesia (Poland). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Er(r)go and has published widely on literary and cultural theory.
Marzena Kubisz is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the same university. Her publications include Strategies of Resistance, Body, Identity and Representation in Western Culture and papers on cultural theory and the sociology of the body.

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Contents: Inga Bryden: Mapping the Urban Sensorium; Marking the «Non-u-Mental» Marcin Mazurek: Redefining Navigation: Urban Congestion vs. Off-Road Encounters Iwona Kurz: A City Map as a Construct of Memory. An Example - the 1944 Uprising in Contemporary Warsaw Radosaw Poczykowski: Hand Drawn Memory - How to Read a Mental Map? Micha Libera: Auditive Notion of Memory in 15 Seconds Lisa Gabbert: Hybridities, New Authenticities, Power: An Ethnographic Example of a Local Heritage Site Marua Punik: Disciplined Memories of a Nation: Remembrance and Museum's Narratives Gregor Starc: Skiing and Football in the Slovenian National Mnemonic Scheme Anna Chromik-Krzykawska: Policing the Boundaries: The Spatial Practices of the Body Liza Potvin: Remembering It in Our Bones: Marie Clements' Burning Vision Katarzyna Kocioek: Winning Over Space - Black British Visual Arts Debate in Selected Writings by E. Chambers, R. Araeen, and K. Mercer Aneta Zacharz: Mirror Re-mirrored - On the Reflection of the Self Maciej Nowak: Toward the Beauty of Inhabitable Spaces. Classicists against the «Fantastick» Speculations of Reason Justyna Wierzchowska: The Myth-making Function of Discourse on the Meaning of Abstract. Expressionism in the Cold War Period Mary Modeen: Distancing and Foregrounding: Visual Art, Memory and Place Anthony Barker: Time, Space and Police Procedure in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Fargo (1996).