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Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory
Andreas Huyssen
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Description for Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory
Paperback. Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This title analyses the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires and New York - three late-20th century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBBEY; 1KLSA; AB; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
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Memory 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;...
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present Series
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804745611
SKU
V9780804745611
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About Andreas Huyssen
Andreas Huyssen is Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His most recent book is Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia.
Reviews for Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory
"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."...
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