Memorial Mania Public Feeling in America

Name: Memorial Mania Public Feeling in America
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ISBN: 9780226159416

ISBN-10: 0226159418

ISBN-13: 9780226159416

Edition: 2012

Authors: Erika Doss

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In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials—to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism—have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry, are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and candles that materialize at sites of tragic and traumatic death. InMemorial Mania, Erika Doss argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express—and claim—those issues in visibly public contexts. Doss shows how this desire to memorialize the past…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 0.67" wide x 0.91" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.804