This volume brings together twenty original essays by scholars from
the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany. It
focuses on the centrality of memory and commemoration to the
formation, affirmation, and revision of American histories and
identities over the course of more than two centuries. Individual
studies engage theoretical issues and perspectives of American
memory studies (Michael Kammen, Aleida Assmann), discuss literary
texts that position themselves at the intersection of personal and
cultural memories and countermemories (Klaus Benesch, Joseph C.
Schopp, Francois Pitavy, Ulfried Reichardt, Nicolas Witschi, Renate
von Bardeleben), interpret theatrical performances and civic
festivities as enactments of individual and collective remembering
(Kurt Muller, Winfried Herget, Heike Bungert, Udo J. Hebel),
explore the potential of films, folk songs, and public buildings as
commemorative media and memorial spaces (Winfried Fluck, James
Olney, John Seelye, William Boelhower), and address the political
and cultural implications of literary anthologies, national
archives, and virtual libraries (Werner Sollors, Caroline Sloat,
Christopher Mulvey, Hanjo Berressem). The collection offers a
seminal contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on sites of
memory in American literatures und cultures.
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