Prosthetic Memory The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture

Name: Prosthetic Memory The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture
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ISBN: 9780231129275

ISBN-10: 0231129270

ISBN-13: 9780231129275

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alison Landsberg

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'Prosthetic Memory' reveals the transformative effect that modern mass culture has had on our relationship with the past. Landsberg argues that technology allows us to assimilate as deeply felt personal experiences historical events through which we did not live & discusses the potential consequences.

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Alison Landsberg is assistant professor of American cultural history at George Mason University. She lives in Arlington, Virginia.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Memory, Modernity, Mass Culture



Prosthetic Memory



The Prosthetic Imagination: Immigration Narratives and the "Melting Down" of Difference



Remembering Slavery: Childhood, Desire, and the Interpellative Power of the Past



America, the Holocaust, and the Mass Culture of Memory: The "Object" of Remembering


Epilogue: Toward a Radical Practice of Memory


Notes


Bibliography


Index