The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate
engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines
the effects of this legacy of historical injustice and documented
suffering on the politics of the present. Twenty-four writers,
historians, literary and cultural critics, anthropologists and
sociologists, visual artists, legal scholars, and curators grapple
with our contemporary ethical endeavor to redress enduring
inequities and retrieve lost histories. Mapping bold and
broad-based responses to past injury across Eastern Europe, Africa,
Latin America, Australia, the Middle East, and the United States,
Rites of Return examines new technologies of genetic and
genealogical research, memoirs about lost family histories, the
popularity of roots-seeking journeys, organized trauma tourism at
sites of atrocity and new Museums of Conscience, and profound
connections between social rites and political and legal rights of
return. Contributors include: Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University;
Nadia Abu El-Haj, Barnard College; Elazar Barkan, Columbia
University; Svetlana Boym, Harvard University; Saidiya Hartman,
Columbia University; Amira Hass, journalist; Jarrod Hayes,
University of Michigan; Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University; Eva
Hoffman, writer; Margaret Homans, Yale University; Rosanne Kennedy,
Australian National University; Daniel Mendelsohn, writer; Susan
Meiselas, photographer; Nancy K. Miller, CUNY Graduate Center;
Alondra Nelson, Columbia University; Jay Prosser, University of
Leeds; Liz Sevchenko, Coalition of Museums of Conscience; Leo
Spitzer, Dartmouth College; Marita Sturken New York University;
Diana Taylor, New York University; Patricia J. Williams, Columbia
University
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