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Global Memoryscapes
Kendall R. . Ed(S): Phillips
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Description for Global Memoryscapes
Paperback. "Global Memoryscapes"""is a collection of eight essays examining the effects of a global society on the collective memories and identities of individual cultures. Editor(s): Phillips, Kendall R. Series: Rhetoric, Culture & Social Critique. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
The transnational movement of people and ideas has led scholars throughout the humanities to reconsider many core concepts. Among them is the notion of public memory and how it changes when collective memories are no longer grounded within the confines of the traditional nation-state. An introduction by coeditors Kendall Phillips and Mitchell Reyes provides a context for examining the challenges of remembrance in a globalized world. In their essay they posit the idea of the “global memoryscape,” a sphere in which memories circulate among increasingly complex and diffused networks of remembrance.
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The transnational movement of people and ideas has led scholars throughout the humanities to reconsider many core concepts. Among them is the notion of public memory and how it changes when collective memories are no longer grounded within the confines of the traditional nation-state. An introduction by coeditors Kendall Phillips and Mitchell Reyes provides a context for examining the challenges of remembrance in a globalized world. In their essay they posit the idea of the “global memoryscape,” a sphere in which memories circulate among increasingly complex and diffused networks of remembrance.
The essays contained within the volume--by scholars from a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Rhetoric, Culture & Social Critique
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817356767
SKU
V9780817356767
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About Kendall R. . Ed(S): Phillips
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Global Memoryscapes
“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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more