The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials: Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials

by Erika Doss

From the commemoration of September 11 to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin to the 2004 unveiling of the National World War II Memorial in Washington D.C., recent decades have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of new public memorials built in both Europe and the United States. This volume considers the contemporary explosion of public commemoration in terms of changed cultural and social practices of mourning, memory, and public feeling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9089640185
• ISBN13: 9789089640185
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"