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Book SynopsisPolitics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy focuses on mapping, analyzing, and evaluating memories, rituals, and artistic responses to the theme of “liberation.” The contributors offer a wide range of diverse intercultural perspectives on media, memory, liberation, (self)Americanization, and conceptualizations of democracy.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Politics and Cultures of Liberation Part 1 The Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Marketing, Memory and Mediation An Invasion of a Different Kind: The U.S. Office of War Information and “The Projection of America” Propaganda in the Netherlands, 1944–1945 Marja Roholl Educating the Nation: Jo Spier, Dutch National Identity, and the Marshall Plan in the Netherlands Mathilde Roza From Memory Repression to Memorialization: The Bombardments of Nijmegen 1944 and Mortsel 1943 Joost Rosendaal Playing in the Ruins of Arnhem: Reenacting Operation Market Garden in Theirs Is the Glory László Munteán “Can Anybody Fly This Thing?” Appropriations of History in Reenactments of Operation Market Garden Wolfgang Hochbruck On the Road to Nijmegen—Earle Birney and Alex Colville, 1944–1945 Hans Bak Part 2 The Soundtrack of Liberation Liberation Songs: Music and the Cultural Memory of the Dutch Summer of 1945 Frank Mehring The Reception and Development of Jazz in the Netherlands (1945–1970s) Walter van de Leur Sounds of Freedom, Cosmopolitan Democracy, and Shifting Cultural Politics: From “The Jazz Ambassador Tours” to “The Rhythm Road” Wilfried Raussert Part 3 Transnational Re-Locations Marching Towards Kullman’s Diner: Performing Transnational American Sites (of Memory) in Bavaria Birgit M. Bauridl The Promise of Democracy for the Americas: U.S. Diplomacy and the Meaning(s) of World War II in El Salvador, 1941–1945 Jorrit van den Berk Liberation and Lingering Trauma: U.S. Present and Haitian Past in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker Josef Raab The Japanese American Relocation Center at Heart Mountain and the Construction of the Post-World War II Landscape Eric J. Sandeen Part 4 Transnational Perspectives from the Archives The Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers Doug McCabe “Quality First!” American Aid to the Nijmegen University Library, 1945–1949 Léon Stapper The Marshall Plan: “A Short Time to Change the World” Linda Christenson and Eric Christenson The Liberation Route Europe: Challenges of Exhibiting Multinational Perspectives Jory Brentjens and Wiel Lenders
