Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America
Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America
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纪念狂热：美国公众的感受
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2010
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Erika Doss
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Erika Doss
在过去的几十年里，数以千计的新纪念碑--被处决的女巫、恐怖主义的受害者和死去的宇航员，沿着那些向民权、器官捐赠者和共产主义的终结致敬的纪念碑--点缀着美国的风景。同样普遍存在的，虽然到目前为止还没有得到认真研究的主题，是临时纪念：自发提供鲜花和蜡烛，在悲惨和创伤性死亡的地点实现。在《纪念狂热》一书中，埃里卡·多斯认为，这些纪念强调了我们对记忆和历史问题的痴迷，以及在公开场合表达和主张这些问题的迫切愿望。多斯展示了这种纪念过去的愿望如何将自己置于个人纪念日和个人不满，悲剧和创伤的故事，以及不同数量的美国人的社会和政治议程。通过提供一个理解这些网站的框架，多斯参与了我们纪念文化背后的更大问题。在身份和代表政治的激烈斗争的推动下，《纪念狂热》证明了当今美国公众情绪的狂热。
In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials - to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism - have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry, are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and candles that materialize at sites of tragic and traumatic death. In "Memorial Mania", Erika Doss argues that these 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, to stories of tragedy and trauma, and to the social and political agendas of diverse numbers of Americans. By offering a framework for understanding these sites, Doss engages the larger issues behind our culture of commemoration. Driven by heated struggles over identity and the politics of representation, Memorial Mania is a testament to the fevered pitch of public feelings in America today.