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Phelan, Mark / Des O'Rawe (Hrsg.). Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts - Cities of Memory. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016.
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Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts

Cities of Memory
  • Palgrave Macmillan UK
  • 2016
  • Gebunden
  • 336 Seiten
  • ISBN 9781137439543
Herausgeber: Mark Phelan / Des O'Rawe

Drawing on a range of cities and conflicts from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the collection explores the post-conflict condition as it is lived and expressed in modern cities such as Berlin, Belfast, Bilbao, Beirut, Derry, Skopje, Sarajevo, Tunis, Johannesburg and Harare. Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts: Cities of Memory investigates how the memory of conflict can be inscribed in historical monuments, human bodies and hermeneutic acts of mapping, traversing, representing, and performing the city. Several essays explore the relations between memory, history and urban space; where memory is located and how it is narrated, as well as various aspects of embodied memory; testimonial

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memory; traumatic memory; counter-memory; false memory; post- memory. Other essays examine the representations of post-war cities and how cultural imaginations relate to the politics of reconstruction in places devastated by protracted urban warfare. Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts: Cities of Memory offers a comparative survey of the complex and often controversial encounters between public art, political memory and commemoration in divided societies, as well as offering insights into the political and ethical difficulties of balancing the dynamics of forgetting and remembering.

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