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Author: Marita Sturken Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520918122 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 374
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Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship of camera images to the production of cultural memory, the mixing of fantasy and reenactment in memory, the role of trauma and survivors in creating cultural comfort, and how discourses of healing can smooth over the tensions of political events. Sturken's discussion encompasses a brilliant comparison of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt; her profound reading of the Memorial as a national wailing wall—one whose emphasis on the veterans and war dead has allowed the discourse of heroes, sacrifice, and honor to resurface at the same time that it is an implicit condemnation of war—is particularly compelling. The book also includes discussions of the Kennedy assassination, the Persian Gulf War, the Challenger explosion, and the Rodney King beating. While debunking the image of the United States as a culture of amnesia, Sturken also shows how remembering itself is a form of forgetting, and how exclusion is a vital part of memory formation.
Author: Marita Sturken Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520918122 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 374
Book Description
Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship of camera images to the production of cultural memory, the mixing of fantasy and reenactment in memory, the role of trauma and survivors in creating cultural comfort, and how discourses of healing can smooth over the tensions of political events. Sturken's discussion encompasses a brilliant comparison of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt; her profound reading of the Memorial as a national wailing wall—one whose emphasis on the veterans and war dead has allowed the discourse of heroes, sacrifice, and honor to resurface at the same time that it is an implicit condemnation of war—is particularly compelling. The book also includes discussions of the Kennedy assassination, the Persian Gulf War, the Challenger explosion, and the Rodney King beating. While debunking the image of the United States as a culture of amnesia, Sturken also shows how remembering itself is a form of forgetting, and how exclusion is a vital part of memory formation.
Author: Teresa Waltz Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1452086214 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 396
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Love and heartbreak has affected Celebrity Magazine writer, Anne Sherman her entire life. After losing her fiancé in a tragic accident, she gave up her dreams of marriage and a family, instead spending the last ten years building her reputation as one of the top writers in the industry. An assignment to interview the reclusive novelist, Dave Beaumont begins a series of bizarre events that seem to draw the two writers closer, while also threatening to tear them apart. The couple struggles to find an answer to the phenomena that is tampering with their relationship before it’s too late. True, deep and abiding love transcends time and space, heaven and earth, finding its soul mate where and when one least suspects it. * * * Dave stood and started down the steps to the beach. He imagined that it would probably feel like being rocked to sleep as the waves pulled him further out to sea. The tears were streaming down his face and the sobs were beginning to build but he refused to let them come. He hadn’t sobbed out loud as a young child and he wouldn’t begin now. He did however bow his head and pray that God would forgive him. “Please God, forgive me. I simply cannot go on alone like this anymore.” Alone at home Anne began to thrash around in the bed, Dave was in trouble; where was he? Anne looked everywhere she could think of but couldn’t see him. Panic set in and she felt claustrophobic as the dark shrouded fog crept around her like it was attempting to close her in. “Dave, Dave, where are you?” she screamed again and again. Anne began running towards the only light visible in the fog. She couldn’t make out what it was but at least it looked like an opening out of the darkness that surrounded her. Looking ahead she could make out the figure of a man walking towards the ocean. It looked like Dave, but she couldn’t be sure. What in the world was he doing walking into the surf with his clothes on? Just then the man turned and looked straight at her and she gasped. It was Dave, and he looked so forlorn that it broke her heart. He gave her one long last look and then disappeared into the surf. “Da-a-ve, come back!”
Author: Marta Perry Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1426845707 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 345
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Digging into her father’s past brings a woman closer to danger in this inspirational romantic suspense novel. Finally meeting the wealthy family she’d never known should have given Corrie Grant the information about her father she’d craved all her life. But the Mannings of Savannah were a secretive and hostile bunch. All except Lucas Santee, her grandfather’s sophisticated right-hand man, who stood between Corrie and her relatives’ unrelenting barbs and slights. The family’s suspicion of her seemed frivolous at first, but when a mysterious series of accidents occurred, Corrie was forced to take it seriously. How far would the Mannings go to keep their secrets buried forever?
Author: Jackie Weger Publisher: Written Musings ISBN: 1955642109 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 251
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Falling for the wrong man landed Stormy Maxwell in jail for eleven months for a bank robbery she says she didn’t commit. Now Stormy’s out and trying to restart her life with her seven-year-old daughter, but another man wants something from her. Tyler Mangus is an asset-recovery agent tasked with recovering the stolen money. Stormy insists she’s innocent and doesn’t know where the money is. Tyler knows she’s guilty and intends to do his job. Neither will give an inch. Their test of endurance will end with a confession, but will it be about money…or love? What readers are saying about Jackie’s books: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Ms. Weger’s writing style is honest and down-to-earth. Her characters are well developed, realistic, and draw you in quickly.” — Big Al’s Books and Pals Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Jackie Weger writes fluently, understandably, makes it flow with pitch and power.” — Read Along with Sue ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Jackie Weger is a gem. I found her writing very unique and comfortable and so annoyingly beautiful.” — Coffeeholic Bookworm
Author: Jan Scarbrough Publisher: Saddle Horse Press, LLC ISBN: 0989873056 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 295
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After losing his wife, Dr. Alexander Dominican is determined his infant daughter will not grow up motherless as he did. Offering sensible, kind kindergarten teacher Mary Adams a marriage of convenience seems like the perfect solution. The widow’s husband left her with a mountain of debt. For Alex, paying it off is a small price to pay for his daughter’s happiness. Until his sensible new wife begins to lose her mind. On the day of their marriage, Mary starts having frightening hallucinations of medieval England—visions that feel more like the memories of woman who lived centuries before. More terrifying, someone—or some thing—is stalking the new mistress of Marchbrook Manor. Could it be one of the sinister servants? Or Alex himself? Alex is reawakening hidden desires and longings in Mary, but until she can untangle the web of nightmares and secrets, she can trust no one. Not even Alex. Alex has no idea he’s unleashing a destiny that’s taken him seven hundred years to fulfill. If Alex and Mary are to salvage their future, they must first unravel centuries of…Tangled Memories.
Author: Suhi Choi Publisher: University of Nevada Press ISBN: 0874179378 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 234
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The Korean War has been called the “forgotten war,” not as studied as World War II or Vietnam. Choi examines the collective memory of the Korean War through five discrete memory sites in the United States and South Korea, including the PBS documentary Battle for Korea, the Korean War Memorial in Salt Lake City, and the statue of General Douglas MacArthur in Incheon, South Korea. She contends that these sites are not static; rather, they are active places where countermemories of the war clash with the official state-sanctioned remembrance. Through lively and compelling analysis of these memory sites, which include two differing accounts of the No Gun Ri massacre\--contemporaneous journalism and oral histories by survivors\--Choi shows diverse narratives of the Korean War competing for dominance in acts of remembering. Embattled Memories is an important interdisciplinary work in two fields, memory studies and public history, from an understudied perspective, that of witnesses to the Korean War.
Author: Mathilde Köstler Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 311077271X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 546
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How does Cajun literature, emerging in the 1980s, represent the dynamic processes of remembering in Cajun culture? Known for its hybrid constitution and deeply ingrained oral traditions, Cajun culture provides an ideal testing ground for investigating the collective memory of a group. In particular, francophone and anglophone Cajun texts by such writers as Jean Arceneaux, Tim Gautreaux, Jeanne Castille, Zachary Richard, Ron Thibodeaux, Darrell Bourque, and Kirby Jambon reveal not only a shift from an oral to a written tradition. They also show hybrid perspectives on the Cajun collective memory. Based on recurring references to place, the texts also reflect on the (Acadian) past and reveal the innate ability of the Cajuns to adapt through repeated intertextual references. The Cajun collective memory is thus defined by a transnational outlook, a transversality cutting across various ethnic heritages to establish and legitimize a collective identity both amid the linguistic and cultural diversity in Louisiana, and in the face of American mainstream culture. Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory represents the first analysis of the mnemonic strategies Cajun writers use to explore and sustain the Cajun identity and collective memory.
Author: José van Dijck Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804756242 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 264
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This book studies how our personal memory is transformed as a result of technological and cultural transformations: digital photo cameras, camcorders, and multimedia computers inevitably change the way we remember and affect conventional forms of recollection.
Author: Donatella Della Porta Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190860936 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 201
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Legacies and Memories in Movements addresses the long term effects of democratic transitions on social movements in Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain. Donatella della Porta and her collaborators examine the concepts of historical legacy and memory, suggesting ways to apply them in analyses of the long-term effects of movements, movement participation, and movement strategies and tactics.
Author: Marita Sturken
Author: Marita Sturken
Author: Teresa Waltz
Author: Marita Sturken
Author: Marta Perry
Author: Jackie Weger
Author: Jan Scarbrough
Author: Suhi Choi
Author: Mathilde Köstler
Author: José van Dijck
Author: Donatella Della Porta