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Author Huyssen, Andreas.

Title Present pasts : urban palimpsests and the politics of memory / Andreas Huyssen
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003

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Description xii, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present.
Contents 1. Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia -- 2. Monumental Seduction: Christo in Berlin -- 3. The Voids of Berlin -- 4. After the War: Berlin as Palimsest -- 5. Fear of Mice: The Times Square Redevelopment -- 6. Memory Sites in an Expanded Field: The Memory Park in Buenos Aires -- 7. Doris Salcedo's Memory Sculpture: Unland: The Orphan's Tunic -- 8. Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno -- 9. Rewritings and New Beginnings: W. G. Sebald and the Literature on the Air War -- 10. Twin Memories: Afterimages of Nine/Eleven
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-177)
Subject Memory (Philosophy)
History -- Philosophy.
Memory -- Social aspects.
Cities and towns -- Psychological aspects.
Memory in literature.
LC no. 2002007737
ISBN 0804745609 alkaline paper
0804745617 paperback alkaline paper