1st Edition
The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials
By Erika Doss
Copyright 2008
52 Pages
by
Routledge
From the commemoration of September 11to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, recent decades have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of new publicmemorials built in both Europe and theUnited States. This volume considers thecontemporary explosion of public commemoration in terms of changed cultural and social practices of mourning, memory, and public feeling. Positingmemorials as the... Read more
The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials, Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials, Things Matter, Public Grief, Mourning Codes, Death Matters, Memory and Public Feeling, Conclusion, Notes.
Biography
Erika Doss is professor and chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
