Overview
- Summary
- In this text, Erika Doss argues that memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express and claim those issues in visibly public contexts. Doss shows how this desire to memorialize the past disposes itself to individual anniversaries and personal grievances.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010
- Locale
- United States
- Contents
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Statue mania to memorial mania: scope of the subject
Grief: temporary memorials and contemporary modes of mourning
Fear: terrorism memorials and security narratives
Gratitude: memorializing World War II and the "greatest generation"
Shame: Duluth's lynching memorial and issues of national morality
Anger: contesting American identity in contemporary memorial culture. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-436) and index.
Statue mania to memorial mania: scope of the subject -- Grief: temporary memorials and contemporary modes of mourning -- Fear: terrorism memorials and security narratives -- Gratitude: memorializing World War II and the "greatest generation" -- Shame: Duluth's lynching memorial and issues of national morality -- Anger: contesting American identity in contemporary memorial culture.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780226159386
0226159388 (alk. paper) - Physical Description
- xvii, 458 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Monuments--United States--Public opinion. War memorials--United States--Public opinion. Collective memory--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Monuments--United States. Victims of terrorism--Monuments--United States. Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial (Duluth, Minn.) Warfare and Defence. McGhie, Isaac,--ca. 1900-1920--Monuments. Clayton, Elias,--ca. 1897-1920--Monuments. Jackson, Elmer,--1897-1920--Monuments. Jackson, Elmer,--1897-1920. McGhie, Isaac,--ca. 1900-1920. Clayton, Elias,--ca. 1897-1920.
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- 2011-05-02 09:34:00
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