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

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...

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Superior document:Radboud Studies in Humanities ; Volume 7
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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.
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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.