Landscapes of Memory Landscapes of Memory
Cultural Memories

Landscapes of Memory

Trauma, Space, History

    • 52,99 €
    • 52,99 €

Beschreibung des Verlags

Since Auschwitz, and more and more frequently today, places that were theatres of mass suffering and other atrocities are becoming common features of our cultural landscape. What should we do with these places? Keep them as they were, to remind us of what actually took place there, as ideal museums of past evils? Or should we transform them and, if so, into which forms and according to which principles? Which pasts do these places transmit, and how? This volume uses an innovative semiotic methodology to analyse selected key trauma sites. The author demonstrates that these places can become, once properly interrogated, privileged observatories capable of throwing light upon the many different conflicts, forms of social control, and power relationships that underlie any politics of memory. The selfsame notions of trauma and memory become, in this way, rewritten in quite a different light: far from any kind of naturalistic definition, they emerge as painful «knots» within which many of the most crucial questions in the contemporary world are intertwined.

GENRE
Sachbücher
ERSCHIENEN
2017
29. November
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
324
Seiten
VERLAG
Peter Lang
ANBIETERINFO
Lightning Source Inc Ingram DV LLC
GRÖSSE
18,5
 MB
Affective Connections Affective Connections
2017
Contested Urban Spaces Contested Urban Spaces
2022
Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age
2020
Forensic Memory Forensic Memory
2017
Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
2013
Archiving Loss Archiving Loss
2018
Breve storia della letteratura rosa Breve storia della letteratura rosa
2020
Il carico da undici Il carico da undici
2024
La memoria degli oggetti La memoria degli oggetti
2023
L'amore è una bugia L'amore è una bugia
2017
Paesaggi della memoria Paesaggi della memoria
2014
La vigilia di Natale La vigilia di Natale
2015
Networked Remembrance Networked Remembrance
2018
Memory and Postcolonial Studies Memory and Postcolonial Studies
2019
Hitler and Mussolini in Churches Hitler and Mussolini in Churches
2020
Artistic Expressions and the Great War, A Hundred Years On Artistic Expressions and the Great War, A Hundred Years On
2021
Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration
2014