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Prosthetic memory : the transformation of American remembrance in the age of mass culture /
Prosthetic Memory argues that mass cultural forms such as cinema and television in fact contain the still-unrealized potential for a progressive politics based on empathy for the historical experiences of others. The technologies of mass culture make it possible for anyone, regardless of race, ethni...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2004].
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Memory, modernity, mass culture.
- Prosthetic memory.
- The prosthetic imagination: immigration narratives and the "melting down" of difference.
- Remembering slavery: childhood, desire, and the interpellative power of the past.
- America, the Holocaust, and the mass culture of memory: the "object" of remembering.
- Epilogue: Toward a radical practice of memory.