Description: Memorial Mania - Public Feeling in AmericaAuthor(s): Erika Doss Format: Paperback Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 9780226159416, 978-0226159416 Synopsis In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials - to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism - have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry, are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and candles that materialize at sites of tragic and traumatic death. In "Memorial Mania", Erika Doss argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express - and claim - those issues in visibly public contexts. Doss shows how this desire to memorialize the past disposes itself to individual anniversaries and personal grievances, to stories of tragedy and trauma, and to the social and political agendas of diverse numbers of Americans. By offering a framework for understanding these sites, Doss engages the larger issues behind our culture of commemoration. Driven by heated struggles over identity and the politics of representation, Memorial Mania is a testament to the fevered pitch of public feelings in America today.
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Book Title: Memorial Mania - Public Feeling in America
Number of Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Name: Memorial Mania-Public Feeling in America
Language: English
Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 231 mm
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 690 g
Subject Area: Social Psychology
Author: Erika Doss
Item Width: 169 mm
Format: Paperback
