The hauntological imaginary in Bernadine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists (2005) by Polo B. Moji

“…I firstly consider Stanley and Jessie’s personal histories as haunted sites of melancholia and repressed memories. I further link hauntology to the imbrication of spiritual and physical worlds through an analysis of the erased historical figures—ghosts—that speak to Stanley at various locations along their journey. …”
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Second‑Wave Holocaust Restitution, Post‑Communist Privatization, and the Global Triumph of Neoliberalism in the 1990s by Regula Ludi

“…This article argues show that the emergence in the 1990s of a second wave of Holocaust‑era restitution claims was not the result of a shift in mentalities leading to the sudden recognition of past wrongs or the surge of repressed memories but rather part of a larger process involving major transformations in global capitalism and property regimes. …”
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Celibacy or Marriage? Dilemmas for Buddhist Monks in Korea by Beatrix Mecsi

“… Following the Confucian period of the Chosŏn era, which overshadowed Buddhists and confined them to the margins of society, at the beginning of Japanese colonial rule the possibility of monastic marriage typical of Japanese practice emerged as a viable alternative for Korean Buddhists in the early twentieth century. While the repressive memory of Japanese colonial heritage often appears in the relevant literature about clerical marriage today as the main reason for Korean Buddhists to get married, an analysis of contemporary documents presents us with a much more complex picture. …”
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Sequence-dependent heterochromatin formation in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum by Toshiyuki Mori, Mai Nakashima

“…In addition, we also found that the AP2-G promoter contains a distinct element required in maintenance of the repression memory. Thus, we speculate that malaria parasites have evolutionarily acquired a sequence-dependent establishment system of non-constitutive, i.e. facultative, H3K9me3-marked heterochromatin.…”
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Filial Care and Familial Postmemory. On the Uncanny and Affective Intermediality of Analogue Media Use in Recent European Documentaries by Blos-Jáni Melinda

“…Postmemory and post-generational trauma work is in the focus of Aliona van der Horst’s films like Love is Potatoes (2017), in which her own mother’s emigration story is recovered through intermediality, or Turn Your Body to the Sun (2021), in which the digitally manipulated archival footage accompanies a woman’s quest for her father’s repressed memories. These are all medially hybrid films, which rely on the affordances of intermediality, and which combine present day footage with images from personal or public archives. …”
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Natural memory beyond the storage model: Repression, trauma, and the construction of a personal past by Nikolai Axmacher, Anne T A Do Lam, Henrik eKessler, Henrik eKessler, Juergen Fell

“…We suggest several experimental paradigms that allow for the investigation of the neural correlates of repressed memories and trauma-induced memory distortions based on a constructivist memory concept.…”
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