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A Late Encounter with the Civil War (Paperback)
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A Late Encounter with the Civil War (Paperback)
Series: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
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In "A Late Encounter with the Civil War," Michael Kreyling
confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the
anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States. When
significant anniversaries arrive in the histories of groups such as
families, businesses, or nations, their members set aside time to
formally remember their shared past. This phenomenon--this social
or collective memory--reveals as much about a group's sense of
place in the present as it does about the events of the past. So it
is with the Civil War.
As a nation, we have formally remembered two Civil War
anniversaries, the 50th and 100th. We are now in the complicated
process of remembering the war for a third time. Kreyling reminds
us that we were a different "we" for each of the earlier
commemorations, and that "we" are certainly different now, and not
only because the president in office for the 150th anniversary
represents a member of the race for whose emancipation from slavery
the war was waged.
These essays explore the conscious and unconscious mechanisms by
which each era has staged, written, and thought about the meaning
of the Civil War. Kreyling engages the not-quite-conscious agendas
at work in the rituals of remembering through fiction, film,
graphic novels, and other forms of expression. Each cultural
example wrestles with the current burden of remembering: What are
we attempting to do with a memory that, to many, seems irrelevant
or so far in the past as to be almost irretrievable?
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