Calling Memory Into Place

Dora Apel

ISBN 10: 197880783X / ISBN 13: 9781978807839

Published by Rutgers University Press, 2020

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Calling Memory Into Place | Dora Apel | Buch | Einband - fest (Hardcover) | Englisch | 2020 | Rutgers University Press | EAN 9781978807839 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Calling Memory Into Place
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 197880783X
• ISBN 13: 9781978807839
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 226W x 155H x 18D millimeters 226 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 431 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

How can memory be mobilized for social justice? How can images and monuments counter public forgetting? And how can inherited family and cultural traumas be channeled in productive ways?  
 
In this deeply personal work, acclaimed art historian Dora Apel examines how memorials, photographs, artworks, and autobiographical stories can be used to fuel a process of “unforgetting”—reinterpreting the past by recalling the events, people, perspectives, and feelings that get excluded from conventional histories. The ten essays in Calling Memory into Place feature explorations of the controversy over a painting of Emmett Till in the Whitney Biennial and the debates about a national lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. They also include personal accounts of Apel’s return to the Polish town where her Holocaust survivor parents grew up, as well as the ways she found strength in her inherited trauma while enduring treatment for breast cancer.  
 
These essays shift between the scholarly, the personal, and the visual as different modes of knowing, and explore the intersections between racism, antisemitism, and sexism, while suggesting how awareness of historical trauma is deeply inscribed on the body. By investigating the relations among place, memory, and identity, this study shines a light on the dynamic nature of memory as it crosses geography and generations.

About the Author

DORA APEL is the W. Hawkins Ferry Endowed Chair Professor Emerita in Modern and Contemporary Art History at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her many books include Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob and Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing (both Rutgers University Press).