Present pasts : urban palimpsests and the politics of memory /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huyssen, Andreas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
Series:Cultural memory in the present
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Present pasts : media, politics, amnesia
  • Monumental seduction : Christo in Berlin
  • The voids of Berlin
  • After the war : Berlin as palimpsest
  • Fear of mice : the Times Square redevelopment
  • Memory sites in an expanded field : the memory park in Buenos Aires
  • Doris Salcedo's memory sculpture Unland : the orphan's tunic
  • Of mice and mimesis : reading Spiegelman with Adorno
  • Rewritings and new beginnings : W.G. Sebald and the literature on the air war
  • Twin memories : after-images of nine/eleven