Public forgetting: the rhetoric and politics of beginning again

"Reconsiders the negative status attributed to forgetting in both academic and popular discussions of public memory. Demonstrates how a community may adopt idioms of forgetting in order to create new and beneficial standards of public judgment concerning the lessons and responsibilities of its...

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1. Verfasser: Vivian, Bradford (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: University Park, Pa. Pennsylvania State Univ. Press 2010
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Zusammenfassung:"Reconsiders the negative status attributed to forgetting in both academic and popular discussions of public memory. Demonstrates how a community may adopt idioms of forgetting in order to create new and beneficial standards of public judgment concerning the lessons and responsibilities of its shared past"--Provided by publisher.
Beschreibung:X, 212 S.
ISBN:9780271036656