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Memorial mania : public feeling in America

Erika Doss
In this text, Erika Doss argues that memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express and claim those issues in visibly public contexts. Doss shows how this desire to memorialize the past disposes itself to individual anniversaries and personal grievances

Print Book, English, 2010
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2010