Main entry:

Huyssen, Andreas.

Title & Author:

Present pasts : urban palimpsests and the politics of memory / Andreas Huyssen.

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2003]
©2003

Description:

xii, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-177).
Present pasts : media, politics, amnesia -- Monumental seduction : Christo in Berlin -- The voids of Berlin -- After the war : Berlin as palimpsest -- Fear of mice : the Times Square redevelopment -- Memory sites in an expanded field : the memory park in Buenos Aires -- Doris Salcedo's memory sculpture Unland : the orphan's tunic -- Of mice and mimesis : reading Spiegelman with Adorno -- Rewritings and new beginnings : W.G. Sebald and the literature on the air war -- Twin memories : after-images of nine/eleven.

Summary:

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; Buenos Aires lived through the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s and their legacy of state terror and disappearances; and New York City faces a set of public memory issues concerning the symbolic value of Times Square as threatened public space and the daunting task of commemorating and rebuilding after the attack on the World Trade Center. Focusing on the issue of monumentalization in divergent artistic and media practices, the book demonstrates that the transformation of spatial and temporal experience by memory politics is a major cultural effect of globalization.

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ISBN:

0804745609 (alk. paper)
9780804745604 (alk. paper)
0804745617 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780804745611 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Memory (Philosophy)
History Philosophy.
Memory Social aspects.
Cities and towns Psychological aspects.
Memory in literature.
Mémoire (Philosophie)
Histoire Philosophie.
Mémoire Aspect social.
Villes Aspect psychologique.
Mémoire dans la littérature.
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
02.01 history of science and culture.
Gedächtnis
Geschichtsphilosophie
Stadt
Gedenkplaatsen.
Gedenktekens.
Collectief geheugen.
Mémoire collective Dans l'art.
Mémoire collective Dans la littérature.
Conscience historique.
Villes Histoire Aspect psychologique.

Added entries:

Cultural memory in the present.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227719
Call No.: BD181.7 .H89 2003
Status: Available