| Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory Contributor(s): Huyssen, Andreas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804745617 ISBN-13: 9780804745611 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: " 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." -- Kaja Silverman, University of California, Berkeley |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
| Dewey: 901 |
| LCCN: 2002007737 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.60 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |