Research Catalog

Title

Landscapes of memory : trauma, space, history / Patrizia Violi ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.

Author

Violi, Patrizia

Publication

Oxford : Peter Lang, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

McEwen, Alastair

Description

ix, 322 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Since Auschwitz, and more and more frequently today, places that were theatres of mass suffering and other atrocities are becoming common features of our cultural landscape. What should we do with these places? Keep them as they were, to remind us of what actually took place there, as ideal museums of past evils? Or should we transform them and, if so, into which forms and according to which principles? Which pasts do these places transmit, and how? This volume uses an innovative semiotic methodology to analyse selected key trauma sites. The author demonstrates that these places can become, once properly interrogated, privileged observatories capable of throwing light upon the many different conflicts, forms of social control, and power relationships that underlie any politics of memory. The selfsame notions of trauma and memory become, in this way, rewritten in quite a different light: far from any kind of naturalistic definition, they emerge as painful "knots" within which many of the most crucial questions in the contemporary world are intertwined. --

Series Statement

Cultural memories ; vol. 7

Uniform Title

• Paesaggi della memoria. English
• Cultural memories vol. 7.

Alternative Title

Paesaggi della memoria.

Subject

• Collective memory > Social aspects
• Psychic trauma > Social aspects
• Museums > Social aspects
• Memorials
• Semiotics

Note

• Originally published in Italian as Paesaggi della memoria : il trauma, lo spazio, la storia, by Bompiani, 2014.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-317) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Italian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 303432202X
• 9783034322027

OCLC

• 974450130
• SCSB-12696192

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library