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Author:   Thomas Houlton (Academic, writer and editor based in York, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9780367186753

ISBN 10:   0367186756
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   26 November 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: ‘Face the Dark Confusion’: Experiencing Monuments Part I. The Monument: Histories and Theories 1 The Monument and the Arts of Memory 2 Theorising the Monument Part II. The Monument and Psychoanalysis 3 The Monument, the Holocaust, and the Crypt: Rachel Whiteread, Jacques Derrida, and Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok’s Cryptonymy 4 D.W. Winnicott and the Destruction of the Monument 5 Countermonuments, Transitional Objects, and the Fear of Breakdown Part III. Monuments, Colonialism, and Imperial Spaces 6 Monuments and Colonial Domination 7 Cecil Rhodes, Oriel College, and the Will to Change 8 Decolonising Edward Colston in Bristol: The Contrapuntal Monument Part IV: Queer Monuments 9 LGBTQIA+ Monuments, Sacred Heterotopias, and the Fantasy of Purity 10 Stonewall, Political Visibility, and the Pressures of LGBTQIA+ Memorialisation 11 Paranoid Monuments, Eve Sedgwick, and Queer Remembrance: (Or, You Probably Think This Monument Is About You) 12 The Monument and Queer Ecology Epilogue: Mesolithic Monuments, ecosystemic collapse, and Hope in the Time of Coronavirus Index

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Thomas Houlton is an academic, writer, and editor based in York, UK. Educated at the University of Cambridge and New York University, he gained his PhD from the University of Sussex, where he also worked at the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence. He has had both critical and creative writing published in journals and magazines.

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