Review: <i>Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial</i>, by Kristin Ann Hass

Norkunas, Martha

doi:10.2307/3379302

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“…When Americans wish to remember the Vietnam War, they share the same site, regardless of whether they were for or against the war. People come to the wall in Washington and leave souvenirs (Hass 1998)-flags, letters, petitions, and so onbut they all do it in the same place. The meaning may not be shared, but the space is.…”

Section: Spaces To Remembermentioning

confidence: 99%

Commemorating a Difficult Past: Yitzhak Rabin's Memorials

Vinitzky‐Seroussi

2002

Am Sociol Rev

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While the literature on collective memory suggests that a multivocal type of commemoration will be constructed in response to a difficult past, Yitzhak Rabin's commemorations provide a case study of a different type of commemoration of challenging events: a fragmented commemoration. A fragmented commemoration consists of multiple times and spaces in which different discourses of the past are aimed at disparate audiences. The author offers a theoretical model within which the emergence of both types of commemoration (multivocal and fragmented) can be understood and analyzed. The model consists of three dimensions: (1) the political culture of the commemorating society, (2) the relevance of past to present, and (3) the power of agents of memory. Explanatory models consisting of a dynamic interplay of agents, cultures, and structures prove valuable as a basis for the study of various sorts of cultural productions in general and commemorative types in particular.

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Section: Spaces To Remembermentioning

confidence: 99%