Framing public memory / edited by Kendall R. Phillips.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phillips, Kendall R.

Series:

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public history.

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

History--Psychological aspects.

History.

Historiography.

Public history--United States.

Public history--Germany.

History--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories. The study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. Essays contained in this volume address issues such as the scope of public memory, the ways we forget, the relationship between politics and memory, and the material p

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; PART I. THE MEMORY OF PUBLICS; 1. Public Memory in Place and Time; 2. Arendt, Eichmann, and the Politics of Remembrance; 3. "Everywhere You Go, It's There": Forgetting and Remembering the University of Texas Tower Shootings; 4. My Old Kentucky Homo: Lincoln and the Politics of Queer Public Memory; 5. Shadings of Regret: America and Germany; PART II. THE PUBLICNESS OF MEMORY; 6. The Appearance of Public Memory; 7. The Voice of the Visual in Memory; 8. "A Timeless Now": Memory and Repetition

9. Renovating the National Imaginary: A Prolegomenon on Contemporary Paregoric Rhetoric10. Framing Memory through Eulogy: Ronald Reagan's Long Good-bye; Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8025-6

OCLC:

427569189