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Acts of memory : cultural recall in the present / edited by Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, and Leo Spitzer

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Author:
Bal, Mieke 1946-  Search this
Crewe, Jonathan V  Search this
Spitzer, Leo 1939-  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1999
©1999
Contents:
Projected memory: Holocaust photographs in personal and public fantasy / Marianne Hirsch -- Symptoms of discursivity: experience, memory, and trauma / Ernst van Alphen -- Trauma narratives and the remaking of the self / Susan J. Brison -- Narrative witnessing as memory work: reading Gertrud Kolmar's A Jewish mother / Irene Kacandes -- Recalling Adamastor: literature as cultural memory in "white" South Africa / Jonathan Crewe -- Back through the future: nostalgic memory and critical memory in a refuge from Nazism / Leo Spitzer -- "Subverted memories": countermourning as political action in Chile / Lessie Jo Frazier -- Nostalgia for the nation: intellectuals and national identity in unified Germany / Gerd Gemünden
The myth of the "Dernier poème": Robert Desnos and French cultural memory / Katharine Conley -- Trees, forests, and the shaping of Palestinian and Israeli collective memory / Carol B. Bardenstein -- Memories in the museum: preposterous histories for today / Mieke Bal -- Monumental seduction / Andreas Huyssen -- Countermemory on the right: the case of focus on the family / Ann Burlein -- Making memory: designs of the present on the past / Mary Kelley -- Narratives of recovery: repressed memory as cultural memory / Marita Sturken
Topic:
Culture  Search this
History  Search this
Memory  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1076230