Memory and the impact of political transformation in public space
By: edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer.
Contributors: Walkowitz, Daniel J.; Knauer, Lisa Maya, 1956-
Series: Radical perspectives
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Monuments -- Political aspects; Memorials -- Political aspects; Public art -- History -- 20th century; Art and state -- History -- 20th century; National characteristics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: Wallace's monument and the resumption of Scotland / Andrew Ross; title: The fall and rise of Prague's Marian Column / Cynthia Paces; title: Aborted identity : the commission and omission of a monument to the nation; title: Sri Lanka, circa 1989 / Kanishka Goonewardena; title: "Dancing on the graves of the dead" or, building a World War II memorial in post-Soviet Russia / Anna Krylova; title: The politics of memory in the Bonn and Berlin republics / Mary Nolan; title: Remembering the war and the atomic bombs : new museums, new approaches / Daniel Seltz; title: Touring Harbin's pasts / James Carter; title: The palace ruins and putting the Lithuanian nation into place : historical stagings in Vilnius / John Czaplicka; title: Memory sites : marked and unmarked; title: Holding the Junta accountable : Chile's "sitios de memoria" and the history of torture, disappearance and death / Teresa Meade; title: Commemorating the past in post-war El Salvador / Irina Carlota Silber; title: The politics of remembrance and the consumption of space : Masada in Israeli memory / Yael Zerubavel; title: Performative commemorations; title: Music, memory and the politics of erasure in Nicaragua / T.M. Scruggs; title: Commemorating the Anglo-Boer War in post-apartheid South Africa / Bill Nasson.