Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory

by Andreas Huyssen

Book Overview

Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York--three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas. Berlin experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall and the city's reemergence as the German capital; Buenos Aires lived through the dictatorships of the 1970s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804745609
• ISBN13: 9780804745604
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.5"