Politics and cultures of liberation : : media, memory, and projections of democracy / / edited by Hans Bak, Frank Mehring and Mathilde Roza.

• Superior document: Radboud Studies in Humanities ; Volume 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Bak, Hans,; Mehring, Frank, 1970-; Roza, Mathilde Helene, 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Radboud studies in humanities ; Volume 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; illustrations.

Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy focuses on mapping, analyzing, and evaluating memories, rituals, and artistic responses to the theme of “liberation.” How is the national framed within a dynamic system of intercultural contact zones highlighting often competing agendas of remembrance? How does the production, (re)mediation, and framing of narratives within different social, territorial, and political environments determine the cultural memory of liberation? The articles compiled in this volume seek to provide new interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on the politics and cultures of liberation by examining commemorative practices, artistic responses, and audio-visual media that lend themselves for transnational exploration. They offer a wide range of diverse intercultural perspectives on media, memory, liberation, (self)Americanization, and conceptualizations of democracy from the war years, through the Cold War era to the 21st century.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Politics and Cultures of Liberation -- The Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Marketing, Memory and Mediation -- An Invasion of a Different Kind: The U.S. Office of War Information and “The Projection of America” Propaganda in the Netherlands, 1944–1945 / Marja Roholl -- Educating the Nation: Jo Spier, Dutch National Identity, and the Marshall Plan in the Netherlands / Mathilde Roza -- From Memory Repression to Memorialization: The Bombardments of Nijmegen 1944 and Mortsel 1943 / Joost Rosendaal -- Playing in the Ruins of Arnhem: Reenacting Operation Market Garden in Theirs Is the Glory / László Munteán -- “Can Anybody Fly This Thing?” Appropriations of History in Reenactments of Operation Market Garden / Wolfgang Hochbruck -- On the Road to Nijmegen—Earle Birney and Alex Colville, 1944–1945 / Hans Bak -- The Soundtrack of Liberation -- Liberation Songs: Music and the Cultural Memory of the Dutch Summer of 1945 / Frank Mehring -- The Reception and Development of Jazz in the Netherlands (1945–1970s) / Walter van de Leur -- Sounds of Freedom, Cosmopolitan Democracy, and Shifting Cultural Politics: From “The Jazz Ambassador Tours” to “The Rhythm Road” / Wilfried Raussert -- Transnational Re-Locations -- Marching Towards Kullman’s Diner: Performing Transnational American Sites (of Memory) in Bavaria / Birgit M. Bauridl -- The Promise of Democracy for the Americas: U.S. Diplomacy and the Meaning(s) of World War II in El Salvador, 1941–1945 / Jorrit van den Berk -- Liberation and Lingering Trauma: U.S. Present and Haitian Past in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker / Josef Raab -- The Japanese American Relocation Center at Heart Mountain and the Construction of the Post-World War II Landscape / Eric J. Sandeen -- Transnational Perspectives from the Archives -- The Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers / Doug McCabe -- “Quality First!” American Aid to the Nijmegen University Library, 1945–1949 / Léon Stapper -- The Marshall Plan: “A Short Time to Change the World” / Linda Christenson and Eric Christenson -- The Liberation Route Europe: Challenges of Exhibiting Multinational Perspectives / Jory Brentjens and Wiel Lenders.