Present pasts : urban palimpsests and the politics of memory / Andreas Huyssen.
By: Huyssen, Andreas.
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BookSeries: Cultural memory in the present. Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003Description: xii, 177 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0804745609 (alk. paper); 0804745617 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Memory (Philosophy) | History -- Philosophy | Memory -- Social aspects | Cities and towns -- Psychological aspects | Memory in literatureDDC classification: 901 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
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.
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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.
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