MEMORIAL MANIA: PUBLIC FEELING IN AMERICA By Erika Doss **Mint Condition**

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ISBN-10
0226159418
Book Title
Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America
ISBN
9780226159416
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226159418
ISBN-13
9780226159416
eBay Product ID (ePID)
110897397

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
480 Pages
Publication Name
Memorial Mania : Public Feeling in America
Language
English
Subject
Military / World War II, Terrorism, Sociology / General, Military / General, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, United States / General
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Travel, Political Science, Social Science, Psychology, History
Author
Erika Doss
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
28.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Memorials carry enormous emotional and symbolic freight, providing clues as to how people feel about their society. This is the subject of Erika Doss's scholarly and readable book, Memorial Mania . . . . I believe Memorial Mania will appeal to a wide audience--both inside and outside academia--given the quality of the writing and the presentation of the material. The book is packed with information and insight as it documents the growing phenomenon of memorialization in America; and 160 illustrations can only enhance the reader's understanding and appreciation of the subject. . . . It is a sign of the quality of Doss' work that I am left wanting more." -- Anthropology Works, "Memorials carry enormous emotional and symbolic freight, providing clues as to how people feel about their society. This is the subject of Erika Doss's scholarly and readable book,  Memorial Mania . . . . I believe  Memorial Mania  will appeal to a wide audience--both inside and outside academia--given the quality of the writing and the presentation of the material. The book is packed with information and insight as it documents the growing phenomenon of memorialization in America; and 160 illustrations can only enhance the reader's understanding and appreciation of the subject. . . . It is a sign of the quality of Doss' work that I am left wanting more." -- Anthropology Works, With its contemporary focus and astonishingly wide range of examples, Erika Doss's Memorial Mania ...considers not simply how commemorative practices reflect the feelings of Americans, but also how commemoration has become a crucial medium through which public feeling is structured, expressed, and archived. . . . What makes Doss's book so valuable is that it reveals the range, complexity, and depth of emotion produced by memorial acts., Memorial Mania is an important and much-needed book, one that complements the existing literature on memorials with richness and originality, and also forges new territory. Doss's excellent and highly polemical critique of its resurgence furthers one of American studies' most noteworthy traditions., Prodigiously researched, generously illustrated. . . . Readers will come away having learned a good deal about contemporary commemoration and possessing a new awareness of the value and interest of the study of public affect., With its contemporary focus and astonishingly wide range of examples, Erika Doss's Memorial Mania …considers not simply how commemorative practices reflect the feelings of Americans, but also how commemoration has become a crucial medium through which public feeling is structured, expressed, and archived. . . . What makes Doss's book so valuable is that it reveals the range, complexity, and depth of emotion produced by memorial acts.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
355.1/60973
Table Of Content
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Statue Mania to Memorial Mania: Scope of the Subject 2. Grief: Temporary Memorials and Contemporary Modes of Mourning 3. Fear: Terrorism Memorials and Security Narratives 4. Gratitude: Memorializing World War II and the "Greatest Generation" 5. Shame: Duluth's Lynching Memorial and Issues of National Morality 6. Anger: Contesting American Identity in Contemporary Memorial Culture Notes Index
Synopsis
In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry, are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and candles that materialize at sites of tragic and traumatic death. In Memorial Mania, Erika Doss argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express--and claim--those issues in visibly public contexts. Doss shows how this desire to memorialize the past disposes itself to individual anniversaries and personal grievances, to stories of tragedy and trauma, and to the social and political agendas of diverse numbers of Americans. By offering a framework for understanding these sites, Doss engages the larger issues behind our culture of commemoration. Driven by heated struggles over identity and the politics of representation, Memorial Mania is a testament to the fevered pitch of public feelings in America today., In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry, are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and candles that materialize at sites of tragic and traumatic death. In Memorial Mania, Erika Doss argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express-and claim-those issues in visibly public contexts. Doss shows how this desire to memorialize the past disposes itself to individual anniversaries and personal grievances, to stories of tragedy and trauma, and to the social and political agendas of diverse numbers of Americans. By offering a framework for understanding these sites, Doss engages the larger issues behind our culture of commemoration. Driven by heated struggles over identity and the politics of representation, Memorial Mania is a testament to the fevered pitch of public feelings in America today.
LC Classification Number
E159.D67 2012

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