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Informationen zum Autor Daniel J. Walkowitz is Director of College Honors and Professor of History and Metropolitan Studies at New York University.Lisa Maya Knauer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African/African-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Klappentext Analyzes the ways national histories are told in public representations, with a particular focus on the impact of political transformations on national narratives. Zusammenfassung Analyzes the ways national histories are told in public representations! with a particular focus on the impact of political transformations on national narratives. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series vii Introduction / Lisa Maya Knauer and Daniel J. Walkowitz 1 Monuments: Built and Unbuilt 19 Wallace's Monument and the Resumption of Scotland / Andrew Ross 21 The Fall and Rise of Prague's Marian Column / Cynthia Paces 47 Aborted Identity: The Commission and Omission of a Monument to the Nation, Sri Lanka, circa 1989 / Kanishka Goonewardena 65 Dancing on the Graves of the Dead: Building a World War II Memorial in Post-Soviet Russia / Anna Krylova 83 Museums 103 The Politics of Memory in the Bonn and Berlin Republics / Mary Nolan 105 Remembering the War and the Atomic Bombs: New Museums, New Approaches / Daniel Seltz 127 Cityscapes 147 Touring Harbin's Pasts / James Carter 149 The Palace Ruins and Putting the Lithuanian Nation into Place: Historical Stagings in Vilnius / John Czaplicka 167 Memory Sites: Marked and Unmarked 189 Holding the Junta Accountable: Chile's "Sitios de Memoria" and the History of Torture, Disappearance, and Death / Teresa Meade 191 Commemorating the Past in Postwar El Salvador / Irina Carlota Silber 211 The Politics of Remembrance and the Consumption of Space: Masada in Israeli Memory / Yael Zerubavel 233 Performative Commemorations 253 Music, Memory, and the Politics of Erasure in Nicaragua / T.M. Scruggs 255 Commemorating the Anglo-Boer War in Postapartheid South Africa / Bill Nasson 277 Bibliography 295 Discography 315 Notes on Contributors 317 Index 321...
