This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas—Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York. Illustrations
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Introduction
1(10)
Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia
11(19)
Monumental Seduction: Christo in Berlin
30(19)
The Voids of Berlin
49(23)
After the War: Berlin as Palimpsest
72(13)
Fear of Mice: The Times Square Redevelopment
85(9)
Memory Sites in an Expanded Field: The Memory Park in Buenos Aires
94(16)
Doris Salcedo's Memory Sculpture: Unland: The Orphan's Tunic
110(12)
Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno
122(16)
Rewritings and New Beginnings: W. G. Sebald and the Literature on the Air War
138(20)
Twin Memories: Afterimages of Nine/Eleven
158(7)
Notes
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