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Landscapes of Memory: Trauma, Space, History - Couverture souple

Livre 5 sur 8: Cultural Memories

Violi, Patrizia

 
9783034322027: Landscapes of Memory: Trauma, Space, History
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 303432202X ISBN 13 : 9783034322027
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Patrizia Violi is Full Professor of Semiotics in the Department of Philosophy and Communication and Coordinator of the PhD Program in Semiotics at the University of Bologna. She is Director of the School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Director of TRAME (Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Memory and Cultural Traumas; www.trame.unibo.it) at the University of Bologna. Her main areas of research include text analysis, language and gender, and semantic theory. She is currently working on cultural semiotics and traumatic memory, in particular on memorials and memory museums.

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Éditeur
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
303432202X
ISBN 13 
9783034322027
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
334
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