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Cultural Memory in the Present Ser.: Present Pasts : Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory by Andreas. Huyssen (2003, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherStanford University Press
ISBN-100804745617
ISBN-139780804745611
eBay Product ID (ePID)2269781
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
Publication NamePresent Pasts : Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistoriography, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Subjects & Themes / General, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
AuthorAndreas. Huyssen
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Psychology, History
SeriesCultural Memory in the Present Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight10 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2002-007737
Reviews"Fascinating reading, this is a profound, original, and timely book about the world's current obsession with the past, as well as the form which this obsession has taken: memory. Huyssen considers what our obsession with memory means, and examines a number of material forms that it has taken, as well as the social, cultural, and aesthetic functions they have served." —Kaja Silverman, University of California, Berkeley, "Fascinating reading, this is a profound, original, and timely book about the world's current obsession with the past, as well as the form which this obsession has taken: memory. Huyssen considers what our obsession with memory means, and examines a number of material forms that it has taken, as well as the social, cultural, and aesthetic functions they have served." --Kaja Silverman, University of California, Berkeley, "Fascinating reading, this is a profound, original, and timely book about the world's current obsession with the past, as well as the form which this obsession has taken: memory. Huyssen considers what our obsession with memory means, and examines a number of material forms that it has taken, as well as the social, cultural, and aesthetic functions they have served." -Kaja Silverman, University of California, Berkeley
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal901
SynopsisMemory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York--three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas. Berlin experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall and the city's reemergence as the German capital; Buenos Aires lived through the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s and their legacy of state terror and disappearances; and New York City faces a set of public memory issues concerning the symbolic value of Times Square as threatened public space and the daunting task of commemorating and rebuilding after the attack on the World Trade Center. Focusing on the issue of monumentalization in divergent artistic and media practices, the book demonstrates that the transformation of spatial and temporal experience by memory politics is a major cultural effect of globalization., This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas--Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York., This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.
LC Classification NumberBD181
