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

Author(s): Huyssen, Andreas

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Main Title
Present pasts : urban palimpsests and the politics of memory
Author(s)
Huyssen, Andreas
Publisher
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003
Collation
176 p. : b/w ill.
23 cm.
ISBN
0804745617||9780804745611
Dewey Class
901
Contents
Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia -- 2. Monumental Seduction: Christo in Berlin -- 3. The Voids of Berlin -- 4. After the War: Berlin as Palimpsest -- 5. Fear of Mice: The Times Square Redevelopment -- 6. Memory Sites in an Expanded Field: The Memory Park in Buenos Aires -- 7. Doris Salcedo's Memory Sculpture: Unland: The Orphan's Tunic -- 8. Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno -- 9. Rewritings and New Beginnings: W.G. Sebald and the Literature on the Air War -- 10. Twin Memories: Afterimages of Nine/Eleven -- Notes.
Language
English
Subject
History -- Philosophy
BRN
2656

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