Cultures of Memory in Asia (eBook, PDF)

Dynamics and Forms of Memorialization
Redaktion: Wu, Chieh-Hsiang

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of works by Asian scholars looking at different ways in which relatively recent traumas have been memorialized in their various countries, often while the traumas themselves are ongoing, or the memories of them contested.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000599190
• Artikelnr.: 63986275

Autorenporträt

Chieh-Hsiang Wu is a Professor in the Department of Arts at the National Changhua University of Education in Taiwan. She is a former Chairperson of Taiwan's Association of Visual Arts and since 2021 she has serves as the Director of the Taiwan Association of Cultural Policy Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Struggling to Remember: Memory, Representation, and Contention 1. Cultural Memories of State Violence: A Comparative Study of Kwangju and Hiroshima 2. The Making of Tiananmen Square as a Realm of Contested Memories 3. From Dictator to Hero: Marcos, Heroes Cemeteries, and Sites of Cultural Memory 4. The Praxis of Memory: The Royal Statue of King Prajadhipok 5. Reshuffling History: From Mengkerang to Party, Image (Film) and it's Overflowing History/Time Index System 6. (Un-)Representability of History and Visualisation of Memory 7. Exorcising Memory through Cold Confessions? Testimonial Literature and the Problems of Ethics 8. The Politics and Promise of Memory: The White Terror in Taiwan as Example.