A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many
disciplines on the construction of public memories.
The study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous
disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history,
philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As
scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light
on the cultural processes of memory. Essays contained in this
volume address issues such as the scope of public memory, the ways
we forget, the relationship between politics and memory, and the
material practices of memory.
Stephen Browne's contribution studies the alternative to memory
erasure, silence, and forgetting as posited by Hannah Arendt in her
classic "Eichmann in Jerusalem." Rosa Eberly writes about the Texas
tower shootings of 1966, memories of which have been minimized by
local officials. Charles Morris examines public reactions to Larry
Kramer's declaration that
Abraham Lincoln was homosexual, horrifying the guardians of
Lincoln's
public memory. And Barbie Zelizer considers the impact on public
memory
of visual images, specifically still photographs of individuals
about to perish (e.g., people falling from the World Trade Center)
and the sense of communal loss they manifest.
Whether addressing the transitory and mutable nature of
collective memories over time or the ways various groups maintain,
engender, or resist those memories, this work constitutes a major
contribution to our understanding of how public memory has been and
might continue to be framed.
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