Description
The essays contained within the volume--by scholars from a wide range of disciplines including American studies, art history, political science, psychology, and sociology--each engage a particular instance of the practices of memory as they are complicated by globalization.
Subjects include the place of nostalgia in post-Yugoslavia Serbian national memory, Russian identity after the collapse of the Soviet Union, political remembrance in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, the role of Chilean mass media in forging national identity following the arrest of Augusto Pinochet, American debates over memorializing Japanese internment camps, and how the debate over the Iraq war is framed by memories of opposition to the Vietnam War.
About the Author
Kendall R. Phillips is Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies for the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. He is the author of Framing Public Memory, Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture and Testing Controversy: A Rhetoric of Educational Reform.
G. Mitchell Reyes is the author of articles and reviews that have appeared in Rhetoric Review, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Women's Studies in Communication, and Southern Communication Journal.
Reviews
"The empirically-grounded and theoretically-rich essays gathered in this collection emphasize the ways global debates over and encounters about memory may serve both as a viable alternative to and as a means of healing violence."--Phaedra C. Pezzullo is an Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University and the author of the award-winning Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Travel, Pollution, and Environmental Justice.
Book Information
ISBN 9780817356767
Author Kendall R. Phillips
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint The University of Alabama Press
Publisher The University of Alabama Press
Weight(grams) 367g