Katherine Hite

Politics and the Art of Commemoration (eBook, PDF)

Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores relationships among art, representation and politics through memorials to violent pasts. Drawing on curators, art historians, psychologists, political theorists, holocaust studies scholars, and others, the book uses memorials as conceptual lenses into deep politics of conflict and as suggestive arenas for imagining democratic practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136583650
• Artikelnr.: 38274109

Autorenporträt

Katherine Hite is Frederick Ferris Thompson Professor of Political Science and Director of the Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She is the author of When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998, as well as several works on the politics of memory.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Memorials to Struggle 2. Memorializing Spain's Narrative of Empire 3.
"The Eye that Cries": Victims, Victimizers, and the Question of Empathy 4.
Searching and the Inter-Generational Transmission of Grief 5. The "Bicis"
of Fernando Traverso: The Globality of Art and Memory Making