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Memorial Mania - Public Feeling in America

Name: Memorial Mania - Public Feeling in America
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226159416
Price: 36.5 EUR
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Автор: Erika Doss

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: The University of Chicago Press

Наличност: Външен склад в ограничено количество

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In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials - to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Erika Doss

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2012

страници

480

EAN

9780226159416

ISBN

0226159418

Enbook ID

04544111

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

690

Размери

152 x 228 x 24

Пълно описание

In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials - to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism - have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry, are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and candles that materialize at sites of tragic and traumatic death. In "Memorial Mania", Erika Doss argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express - and claim - those issues in visibly public contexts. Doss shows how this desire to memorialize the past disposes itself to individual anniversaries and personal grievances, to stories of tragedy and trauma, and to the social and political agendas of diverse numbers of Americans. By offering a framework for understanding these sites, Doss engages the larger issues behind our culture of commemoration. Driven by heated struggles over identity and the politics of representation, Memorial Mania is a testament to the fevered pitch of public feelings in America today.