Global memoryscapes contesting remembrance in a transnational age

Phillips, Kendall R. (Added Author). Reyes, G. Mitchell. (Added Author).

Summary: "The transnational movement of people and ideas has led scholars throughout the humanities to reconsider many core concepts. Among them is the notion of public memory and how it changes when collective memories are no longer grounded within the confines of the traditional nation-state. An introduction by coeditors Kendall Phillips and Mitchell Reyes provides a context for examining the challenges of remembrance in a globalized world. In their essay they posit the idea of the 'global memoryscape,' a sphere in which memories circulate among increasingly complex and diffused networks of remembrance. The essays contained within the volume--by scholars from a wide range of disciplines including American studies, art history, political science, psychology, and sociology--each engage a particular instance of the practices of memory as they are complicated by globalization. Subjects include the place of nostalgia in post-Yugoslavia Serbian national memory, Russian identity after the collapse of the Soviet Union, political remembrance in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, the role of Chilean mass media in forging national identity following the arrest of Augusto Pinochet, American debates over memorializing Japanese internment camps, and how the debate over the Iraq war is framed by memories of opposition to the Vietnam War"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780817385699 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 081738569X (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780817317430 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0817317430 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780817356767 (paper : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0817356762 (paper : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (203 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.

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General Note:	Multi-User. OldControl:muse9780817385699
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. The Persistence of Memory / Urvashi Butalia -- 2. Russia's Postcommunist Past: The Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Reimagining of National Identity / Ekaterina V. Haskins -- 3. Making Up for Lost Time: Yugo-Nostalgia and the Limits of Serbian Memory / Christine Lavrence -- 4. The Mayrau Mining Museum: Preserving the Past as a Liminal Space in a Liminal Time / Margaret A. Lindauer -- 5. Tule Lake: A Memorial to the Forgotten / Cynthia D. Cervantes -- 6. Remembering Winnie: Public Memory and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa / Katherine Mack -- 7. Chilean Historical Memory, Media, and Discourses of Human Rights / Kristin Sorensen -- 8. Material Memories of the Ottoman Empire: Armenian and Greek Objects of Legacy / Zeynep Turan.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.