Calling Memory into Place / / Dora Apel.

How can memory be mobilized for social justice? How can images and monuments counter public forgetting? And how can inherited family and cultural traumas be channeled in productive ways? In this deeply personal work, acclaimed art historian Dora Apel examines how memorials, photographs, artworks, an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2021
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (238 p.) :; 13 b-w illustrations, 62 color photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I Passages and Streets
  • 1 A Memorial for Walter Benjamin
  • 2 “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”
  • Part II Memorials and Museums
  • 3 Why We Need a National Lynching Memorial
  • 4 “Let the World See What I’ve Seen”
  • Part III Hometowns and Homelands
  • 5 Seeing What Can No Longer Be Seen
  • 6 Borders and Walls
  • Part IV Hospitals and Cemeteries
  • 7 Sprung from the Head
  • 8 Parallel Universes
  • Part V Body and Mind
  • 9 Reclaiming the Self
  • 10 The Care of Others
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author