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Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America

Name: Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226159416
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Contributors:

Erika Doss

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Art, Architecture

Book Subcategory:

Anthropology, American, History

Book Topic:

Cultural & Social

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Release Date:

2012-05-14

ISBN 13:

9780226159416

Weight:

1.4 lbs

Size:

8.90 x 6.00 x 1.00 inches

Pages:

480

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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.

About the Author

Erika Doss is professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism, also published by the University of Chicago Press, among other titles.

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