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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826513303321

Autore

Parr Adrian

Titolo

Deleuze and memorial culture : desire, singular memory and the politics of trauma / / Adrian Parr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-7486-5243-4

1-281-35764-2

9786611357641

0-7486-3158-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

302

Soggetti

Memorials - Political aspects

Memorialization

Psychic trauma - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Desire is social -- Utopian memory -- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- 9/11 news coverage -- US military abuses at Abu Ghraib -- The Amish shootings -- Ground Zero -- Berlin and the Holocaust -- Trauma and consumption.

Sommario/riassunto

Deleuze and Memorial Culture outlines the relevance of Deleuze's thought to cultural studies and the wider phenomenon of traumatic memory and public remembrance.