The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces BetweenJames E. Young
In the seventy years since World War II, commemorative efforts have been more widespread, diverse, and complex than for any previous period. James Young has been a significant contributor to this memorial culture. In a new volume of selected writings, he calls attention to key stages in the process...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 300-303 |
| Review of: | The stages of memory (Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2016) (Lang, Berel)
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| Summary: | In the seventy years since World War II, commemorative efforts have been more widespread, diverse, and complex than for any previous period. James Young has been a significant contributor to this memorial culture. In a new volume of selected writings, he calls attention to key stages in the process of memorialization, drawing here on his own direct involvement in it. His role has consisted in struggling in the trenches: he has been called on to make decisions—political and practical as well as aesthetic—among competing conceptions for memorials at distinctive and complex “sites of memory. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcx027 |