The destruction of monuments during the Black Lives Matter movement of
2020 shows how many nations are being forced to grapple with their
national histories. It is clear that the things which make up our
streets form a core part of our historical, political and cultural
identity. Here, Eloise Florence turns to Berlin and the deeply
entrenched English-language narratives about World War II to explore
the complicated relationship between violence, place and memory in the
Anglo-American consciousness.
Centered upon Teufelsberg – a hill in Berlin born from the rubble
caused by Allied bombing – and other sites of violence across
Germany's capital, this interdisciplinary study unpicks the use and
abuse of area bombing and its cultural memory in Anglo-American
audiences. Grounded in theories of new materialism and post-humanism,
and drawing on extensive empirical and auto-ethnographic data, the
issues addressed include: moving through urban landscapes as an
embodied means of memorializing war and trauma; remembering
destruction as a means to advance or challenge traditional war
mythologies; and curation as an entry point for tourists to reconsider
the impact of British and American aerial raids, including modern
drone warfare.
This innovative volume shines an important light on both the dark
legacy of the aerial bombing of Berlin and the ways in which we record
and read violent histories more generally. As such, _Traces of Aerial
Bombing in Berlin_ will be an invaluable resource for all scholars of
World War II, memory culture and public history.
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Entangled Remembering
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781350269019
Publisert
2023
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter