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Memorial Mania - Public Feeling in America (Paperback)
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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.
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