Calling Memory into Place

Author:   Dora Apel
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
ISBN:  

9781978807839


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   17 September 2020
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Dora Apel
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781978807839


ISBN 10:   197880783
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   17 September 2020
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Passages and Streets             1.         A Memorial for Walter Benjamin             2.         “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” Part II: Memorials and Museums             3.          Why We Need a National Lynching Memorial             4.         “Let the World See What I Have Seen” Part III: Hometowns and Homelands             5.         Seeing What Can No Longer Be Seen             6.         Borders and Walls Part IV: Hospitals and Cemeteries             7.         Sprung from the Head             8.         Parallel Universes Part V:  Body and Mind              9.        Reclaiming the Self             10.       The Care of Others Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index  

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""Apel brings it all to bear in this extraordinary book.""— PopMatters ""In this deeply personal and thoughtful book, Dora Apel explores what it means to recall terrible events and what is at stake in forgetting them. She shows us that artworks, memorials and monuments, however fixed they may be in their form, are also malleable in their meaning when they are mobilized by individuals, communities and governments. Whether she is writing about recent attempts to reckon with America’s legacy of racial violence, the dilemmas that arise from efforts to memorialize the Holocaust, or her own struggle with cancer, Apel’s approach is always lucid, empathic and moving.""— Coco Fusco, Cooper Union School of Arts ""An inherently fascinating, thoughtful and thought-provoking series of insightfully informative essays on the role of memory in processing personal, social, cultural and political histories, Calling Memory into Place is an impressive and original work that is nicely illustrated throughout in full color."" — Midwest Book Review ""The Best Books of 2020: Non-Fiction""— PopMatters, The Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction The Library Café interview with Dora Apel— The Library Cafe ""Calling Memory into Place is written out of a deep conviction in the emancipatory and reparative potentials of memory. Building on the trauma and the resilience inherited from her mother’s survival of the Holocaust, Dora Apel powerfully explores how memorials, visual artworks, and personal narratives of illness and recovery can mobilize us in the struggle for social justice.""— Marianne Hirsch, co-author of School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference


Calling Memory into Place is written out of a deep conviction in the emancipatory and reparative potentials of memory. Building on the trauma and the resilience inherited from her mother's survival of the Holocaust, Dora Apel powerfully explores how memorials, visual artworks, and personal narratives of illness and recovery can mobilize us in the struggle for social justice.


"""An inherently fascinating, thoughtful and thought-provoking series of insightfully informative essays on the role of memory in processing personal, social, cultural and political histories, Calling Memory into Place is an impressive and original work that is nicely illustrated throughout in full color."" — Midwest Book Review ""The Best Books of 2020: Non-Fiction""— PopMatters, The Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction ""In this deeply personal and thoughtful book, Dora Apel explores what it means to recall terrible events and what is at stake in forgetting them. She shows us that artworks, memorials and monuments, however fixed they may be in their form, are also malleable in their meaning when they are mobilized by individuals, communities and governments. Whether she is writing about recent attempts to reckon with America’s legacy of racial violence, the dilemmas that arise from efforts to memorialize the Holocaust, or her own struggle with cancer, Apel’s approach is always lucid, empathic and moving.""— Coco Fusco, Cooper Union School of Arts The Library Café interview with Dora Apel— The Library Cafe ""Calling Memory into Place is written out of a deep conviction in the emancipatory and reparative potentials of memory. Building on the trauma and the resilience inherited from her mother’s survival of the Holocaust, Dora Apel powerfully explores how memorials, visual artworks, and personal narratives of illness and recovery can mobilize us in the struggle for social justice.""— Marianne Hirsch, co-author of School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference ""Apel brings it all to bear in this extraordinary book.""— PopMatters"


Author Information

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).  

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