Huyssen, Andreas.

Present pasts : urban palimpsests and the politics of memory / Andreas Huyssen. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003. - xii, 177 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cultural memory in the present .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-177).

Present pasts : media, politics, amnesia -- Monumental seduction : Christo in Berlin -- The voids of Berlin -- After the war : Berlin as palimpsest -- Fear of mice : the Times Square redevelopment -- Memory sites in an expanded field : the memory park in Buenos Aires -- Doris Salcedo's memory sculpture Unland : the orphan's tunic -- Of mice and mimesis : reading Spiegelman with Adorno -- Rewritings and new beginnings : W.G. Sebald and the literature on the air war -- Twin memories : after-images of nine/eleven.

0804745609 (alk. paper) 0804745617 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Memory (Philosophy)
History--Philosophy.
Memory--Social aspects.
Cities and towns--Psychological aspects.
Memory in literature.

BD181.7 / .H89 2003

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