{"product_id":"present-pasts-9780804745604","title":"Present Pasts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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: memory. Huyssen 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresent pasts - media, politics, amnesia; monumental seduction - Christo in Berlin; the voids of Berlin; after the war - Berlin as palimpsest; fear of mice - the Times Square redevelopment; memory sites in an expanded field - the Memory Park in Buenos Aires; Doris Salcedo's memory sculpture unland - the Orphan's Tunic; of mice and mimesis - reading Spiegelman's Maus with Adorno; rewritings and new beginnings - W.G. Sebald and the literature on the air war; twin memories - after-images of 9\/11.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405552755031,"sku":"9780804745604","price":78.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804745604.jpg?v=1730492807","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/present-pasts-9780804745604","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}