ISBN:
9780190611095
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302/.1
Keywords:
Memory--Social aspects--United States--History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Commonplace Witnessing examines how citizens, politicians, and civic institutions have adopted idioms of witnessing in recent decades to serve a variety of social, political, and moral ends. The book encourages us to continue expanding and diversifying our normative assumptions about which historical subjects bear witness and how they do so.
Abstract:
Cover -- Commonplace Witnessing -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Invention: Booker T. Washington's Cotton States Exposition Address -- 2. Authenticity: Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments -- 3. Regret: George W. Bush's Gorée Island Address -- 4. Habituation: The National September 11 Memorial -- 5. Impossibility -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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