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Calling Memory into Place / Dora Apel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (238 p.) : 13 b-w illustrations, 62 color photographsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781978807877
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153.1/2 23
LOC classification:
  • BF371 .A54 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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, and autobiographical stories can be used to fuel a process of “unforgetting”—reinterpreting the past by recalling the events, people, perspectives, and feelings that get excluded from conventional histories. The ten essays in Calling Memory into Place feature explorations of the controversy over a painting of Emmett Till in the Whitney Biennial and the debates about a national lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. They also include personal accounts of Apel’s return to the Polish town where her Holocaust survivor parents grew up, as well as the ways she found strength in her inherited trauma while enduring treatment for breast cancer. These essays shift between the scholarly, the personal, and the visual as different modes of knowing, and explore the intersections between racism, antisemitism, and sexism, while suggesting how awareness of historical trauma is deeply inscribed on the body. By investigating the relations among place, memory, and identity, this study shines a light on the dynamic nature of memory as it crosses geography and generations.
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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

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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, and autobiographical stories can be used to fuel a process of “unforgetting”—reinterpreting the past by recalling the events, people, perspectives, and feelings that get excluded from conventional histories. The ten essays in Calling Memory into Place feature explorations of the controversy over a painting of Emmett Till in the Whitney Biennial and the debates about a national lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. They also include personal accounts of Apel’s return to the Polish town where her Holocaust survivor parents grew up, as well as the ways she found strength in her inherited trauma while enduring treatment for breast cancer. These essays shift between the scholarly, the personal, and the visual as different modes of knowing, and explore the intersections between racism, antisemitism, and sexism, while suggesting how awareness of historical trauma is deeply inscribed on the body. By investigating the relations among place, memory, and identity, this study shines a light on the dynamic nature of memory as it crosses geography and generations.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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