Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of
art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history,
forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New
York—three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted
major social or political traumas. Berlin experienced the fall of
the Berlin Wall and the city’s reemergence as the German capital;
Buenos Aires lived through the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s
and their legacy of state terror and disappearances; and New York
City faces a set of public memory issues concerning the symbolic
value of Times Square as threatened public space and the daunting
task of commemorating and rebuilding after the attack on the World
Trade Center. Focusing on the issue of monumentalization in
divergent artistic and media practices, the book demonstrates that
the transformation of spatial and temporal experience by memory
politics is a major cultural effect of globalization.
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