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Aborted Identity: The Commission and Omission of a Monument to the Nation, Sri Lanka, circa 1989
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- About the Series vii
- Introduction 1
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MONUMENTS: BUILT AND UNBUILT
- Wallace’s Monument and the Resumption of Scotland 21
- The Fall and Rise of Prague’s Marian Column 47
- Aborted Identity: The Commission and Omission of a Monument to the Nation, Sri Lanka, circa 1989 65
- Dancing on the Graves of the Dead: Building a World War II Memorial in Post-Soviet Russia 83
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MUSEUMS
- The Politics of Memory in the Bonn and Berlin Republics 105
- Remembering the War and the Atomic Bombs: New Museums, New Approaches 127
- CITYSCAPES 147
- Touring Harbin’s Pasts 149
- The Palace Ruins and Putting the Lithuanian Nation into Place: Historical Stagings in Vilnius 167
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MEMORY SITES: MARKED AND UNMARKED
- Holding the Junta Accountable: Chile’s ‘‘Sitios de Memoria’’ and the History of Torture, Disappearance, and Death 191
- Commemorating the Past in Postwar El Salvador 211
- The Politics of Remembrance and the Consumption of Space: Masada in Israeli Memory 233
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PERFORMATIVE COMMEMORATIONS
- Music, Memory, and the Politics of Erasure in Nicaragua 255
- Commemorating the Anglo-Boer War in Postapartheid South Africa 277
- Bibliography 295
- Discography 315
- Notes on Contributors 317
- Index 321
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- About the Series vii
- Introduction 1
-
MONUMENTS: BUILT AND UNBUILT
- Wallace’s Monument and the Resumption of Scotland 21
- The Fall and Rise of Prague’s Marian Column 47
- Aborted Identity: The Commission and Omission of a Monument to the Nation, Sri Lanka, circa 1989 65
- Dancing on the Graves of the Dead: Building a World War II Memorial in Post-Soviet Russia 83
-
MUSEUMS
- The Politics of Memory in the Bonn and Berlin Republics 105
- Remembering the War and the Atomic Bombs: New Museums, New Approaches 127
- CITYSCAPES 147
- Touring Harbin’s Pasts 149
- The Palace Ruins and Putting the Lithuanian Nation into Place: Historical Stagings in Vilnius 167
-
MEMORY SITES: MARKED AND UNMARKED
- Holding the Junta Accountable: Chile’s ‘‘Sitios de Memoria’’ and the History of Torture, Disappearance, and Death 191
- Commemorating the Past in Postwar El Salvador 211
- The Politics of Remembrance and the Consumption of Space: Masada in Israeli Memory 233
-
PERFORMATIVE COMMEMORATIONS
- Music, Memory, and the Politics of Erasure in Nicaragua 255
- Commemorating the Anglo-Boer War in Postapartheid South Africa 277
- Bibliography 295
- Discography 315
- Notes on Contributors 317
- Index 321