The art of commemoration : fifty years after the Warsaw Uprising /

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The Art of Commemoration focuses on a particular historical event that illustrates how nations define their own identities and establish mutual relations in their discourse: the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 and its Commemoration in 1994. This Commemoration was an innovative and unique form of tran...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Ensink, T. (Titus), Sauer, Christoph
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2003.
Series:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 7.
Subjects:
1939-1945
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Warsaw > Influence.
Memory > Social aspects.
HISTORY > Holocaust.
Anniversaries
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Memory > Social aspects
Herdenkingen.
Opstanden.
Getto's.
Redes.
Discourse analysis.
Warsaw (Poland) > History > Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 > Anniversaries, etc.
Varsovie (Pologne) > Histoire > 1943 (Insurrection du ghetto) > Anniversaires.
Poland > Warsaw
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The Art of Commemoration focuses on a particular historical event that illustrates how nations define their own identities and establish mutual relations in their discourse: the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 and its Commemoration in 1994. This Commemoration was an innovative and unique form of transnational communication because it brought together representative speakers from all parties involved. They considered the commemorated event from different perspectives: the victim (Poland), the former enemy (Germany) and the former allies (England, USA, France and other countries, as well as Russ.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027296030
9027296030
ISSN:1569-9463 ;

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