Present Pasts by Andreas Huyssen

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Summary

This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.

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Present Pasts by Andreas Huyssen

This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.
"Fascinating reading, this is a profound, original, and timely book about the world's current obsession with the past, as well as the form which this obsession has taken: memoryHuyssen considers what our obsession with memory means, and examines a number of material forms that it has taken, as well as the social, cultural, and aesthetic functions they have served." -Kaja Silverman, University of California, Berkeley
Andreas Huyssen is Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His most recent book is Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia.
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ISBN 13 9780804745611
ISBN 10 0804745617
Title Present Pasts
Author Andreas Huyssen
Series Cultural Memory In The Present
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Stanford University Press
Year published 2003-01-15
Number of pages 192
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