Description
Book SynopsisThe destruction of monuments during the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020 shows how many nations are being forced to grapple with their national histories. It is clear that the things which make up our streets form a core part of our historical, political and cultural identity. Here, Eloise Florence turns to Berlin and the deeply entrenched English-language narratives about World War II to explore the complicated relationship between violence, place and memory in the Anglo-American consciousness.
Centered upon Teufelsberg a hill in Berlin born from the rubble caused by Allied bombing and other sites of violence across Germany''s capital, this interdisciplinary study unpicks the use and abuse of area bombing and its cultural memory in Anglo-American audiences. Grounded in theories of new materialism and post-humanism, and drawing on extensive empirical and auto-ethnographic data, the issues addressed include: moving through urban landscapes as an embodied means of memoria
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Introduction: A Genealogy of Remembering Area Bombing 1. A History of Remembering through Place 2. Method: Gleaning Cultural Memory from Places 3. Introducing Teufelsberg as Layers of Linear History 4. Cultural Memory, Aerial Photography, and Bodily Violence 5. Teufelsberg as an Unruly Burial Ground 6. Bodies in the Stones Conclusion: Active and Vibrant Rubble Bibliography Index
