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Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York - three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas. Berlin experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall and the city's reemergence as the German capital; Buenos Aires lived through the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s and their legacy of state terror and disappearances; and New York City faces a set of public memory issues concerning the symbolic value of Times Square as threatened public space and the daunting task of commemorating and rebuilding after the attack on the World Trade Center. Focusing on the issue of monumentalization in divergent artistic and media practices, the book demonstrates that the transformation of spatial and temporal experience by memory politics is a major cultural effect of globalization.
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Let me give full disclosure here - I struggled mightily with this book for a graduate-level class. That said, the struggle was worthwhile in the sense of coming to terms with some issues in the discussion of "collective memory" and the way people's perceptions of the past evolve and change over time. The individual chapters of the text are pretty straight forward, to be honest, but trying to sort out a general thesis for the text is much more challenging. Still, by looking at sites as diverse as Berlin, New York and South America, Huyssen offers a way to consider how memory and history come together to build a sort of public identity. Certainly not for the casual reader, but for a history student, this should probably almost be a required read.
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