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Informationen zum Autor Lindsey A. Freeman is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia and a co-editor of The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures from Poe to Punk . Benjamin Nienass is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at California State University San Marcos. His research is concerned with the politics of memory in postnational contexts, particularly in the European Union. Rachel Daniell is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY and works with the Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense (EAAF). Her research examines everyday social practices around data and documents that contribute to the visibility of human rights violations. Klappentext Takes on an innovative focus on "spectacular memory," asking how spectacle functions in processes of memory, countermemory, and silencing. Breaks new ground in the discussion of absence, both in terms of the ‘absent,’ missing dialogues, texts, monuments and communities, as well as the "disappearing" older modes of living being phased out, outdated technologies, and dissolved nations. Covers a wide range of historical memory topics, including social memories of communism in Eastern Europe, U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in World War II, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. These articles show the emergence of counter memories, new technologies, and new means of memory community formation that offer possibilities for the future. Zusammenfassung In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis! the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell PART I: SPECTACULAR MEMORY: MEMORY AND APPEARANCE IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION Chapter 1. Haunted by the Spectre of Communism: Spectacle and Silence in Hungary's House of Terror Amy Sodaro Chapter 2. Making Visible: Reflexive Narratives at the Manzanar U.S. National Historic Site Rachel Daniell Chapter 3. The Everyday as Spectacle: Archival Imagery and the Work of Reconciliation in Canada Naomi Angel PART II: SCREENING ABSENCE: NEW TECHNOLOGY, AFFECT, AND MEMORY Chapter 4. Viral Affiliations: Facebook, Queer Kinship, and the Memory of the Disappeared in Contemporary Argentina Cecilia Sosa Chapter 5. Learning by Heart: Humming, Singing, Memorizing in Israeli Memorial Videos Laliv Melamed Chapter 6. Arcade Mode: Remembering, Revisiting, and Replaying the American Video Arcade Samuel Tobin PART III: SILENCE AND MEMORY: ERASURES, STORYTELLING, AND KITSCH Chapter 7. Remembering Forgetting: A Monument to Erasure at the University of North Carolina Timothy J. McMillan Chapter 8. The Power of Conflicting Memories in European Transnational Social Movements Nicole Doerr Chapter 9. Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Postcommunist Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland Joanna Michlic Chapter 10. 1989 as Collective Memory "Refolution": East-Central Europe Confronts Memorial Silence Susan C. Pearce Conclusion: Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information and New Media Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell List of Contributors
