Walkowitz / Daniel Walkowitz / Knauer Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8634-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Radical Perspectives

Analyzes the ways national histories are told in public representations, with a particular focus on the impact of political transformations on national narratives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walkowitz, Daniel J.

Daniel Walkowitz, Walkowitz

Knauer, Lisa Maya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series vii

Introduction / Lisa Maya Knauer and Daniel J. Walkowitz 1

Monuments: Built and Unbuilt 19

Wallace's Monument and the Resumption of Scotland / Andrew Ross 21

The Fall and Rise of Prague's Marian Column / Cynthia Paces 47

Aborted Identity: The Commission and Omission of a Monument to the Nation, Sri Lanka, circa 1989 / Kanishka Goonewardena 65

Dancing on the Graves of the Dead: Building a World War II Memorial in Post-Soviet Russia / Anna Krylova 83

Museums 103

The Politics of Memory in the Bonn and Berlin Republics / Mary Nolan 105

Remembering the War and the Atomic Bombs: New Museums, New Approaches / Daniel Seltz 127

Cityscapes 147

Touring Harbin's Pasts / James Carter 149

The Palace Ruins and Putting the Lithuanian Nation into Place: Historical Stagings in Vilnius / John Czaplicka 167

Memory Sites: Marked and Unmarked 189

Holding the Junta Accountable: Chile's "Sitios de Memoria" and the History of Torture, Disappearance, and Death / Teresa Meade 191

Commemorating the Past in Postwar El Salvador / Irina Carlota Silber 211

The Politics of Remembrance and the Consumption of Space: Masada in Israeli Memory / Yael Zerubavel 233

Performative Commemorations 253

Music, Memory, and the Politics of Erasure in Nicaragua / T.M. Scruggs 255

Commemorating the Anglo-Boer War in Postapartheid South Africa / Bill Nasson 277

Bibliography 295

Discography 315

Notes on Contributors 317

Index 321

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel J. Walkowitz is Director of College Honors and Professor of History and Metropolitan Studies at New York University.Lisa Maya Knauer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African/African-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.