Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York ; ; Berlin, : Walter de Gruyter, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (468 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/35873
Altri autori (Persone)	HebelUdo J
Collana	Media and cultural memory =Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung
Soggetto topico	American literature - History and criticism History in literature Collective memory in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Literature and history - United States - History Collective memory and literature - United States - History
Soggetto non controllato	American Memories Commemorative Identity Construction Cultural Memory Politics of Remembrance
ISBN	1-282-34542-7 9786612345425 3-11-022421-6
Classificazione	HR 1704
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Transnational Recastings of Conquest and the Malinche Myth -- Performing Cultural Memory: Scenarios of Colonial Encounter in the Writings of John Smith, Cabeza de Vaca, and Jacques Cartier -- Saving the Circum-Atlantic World: Transnational (American) Memories in Julia Álvarez's Disease Narrative -- Intruders on Native Ground: Troubling Silences and Memories of the Land-Taking in Norwegian Immigrant Letters -- Tribal or Transnational? Memory, History and Identity in James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk -- Arabs Looking Back: William Peter Blatty's Autobiographical Writing -- Roots Trips and Virtual Ethnicity: Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated -- Terrorist Violence and Transnational Memory: Jonathan Safran Foer and Don DeLillo -- Remembering War the Transnational Way: The U.S.-American Memory of World War I -- "Let Him Remain Until the Judgment in France": Family Letters and the Overseas Burying of U.S. World War I Soldiers -- Liberating Dachau: Transnational Discourses of Holocaust Memory -- Remembering the 'Forgotten War' and Containing the 'Remembered War:' Insistent Nationalism and the Transnational Memory of the Korean War -- Celluloid Recoveries: Cinematic Transformations of Ground Zero -- (Re)Visions of Progress: Chicago's World's Fairs as Sites of Transnational American Memory -- Between Diaspora and Empire: The Shevchenko Monument in Washington, D.C. -- Of Routes and Roots: Topographies of Transnational Memory in the Upper Rio Grande Valley -- "A Lens into What It Means to Be an American": African American Philadelphia Murals as Sites of Memory -- Artistic Inspiration and Transnational Memories in the Twentieth Century -- Magna Carta 1215 and the Exercise of Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century -- Commentary Epilogue -- Back matter
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910825088703321

Autore	Kasper Eric T.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (315 pages)
Disciplina	791.43/65540973
Collana	Politics, literature, and film
Soggetto topico	Law in motion pictures
ISBN	1-4985-4912-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Congress : "The government's hands are tied" -- The presidency : "I will shoulder all responsibility" -- Supreme Court justices and federal judges : "That's not the way I read the law!" -- The freedom of and from religion : "'There is no contradiction between faith and science ... true science!" -- The freedoms of speech and press : "The Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint!" -- The right to keep and bear arms : "You can get further with a kind word and a gun" -- The rights of criminal suspects against police : "We need a reason to knock on this door!" -- The rights of the criminally accused in court : "The whole trial is out of order!" -- The rights of the convicted : "What we've got here is failure to communicate" -- Equal protection of the law : "They call me Mr. Tibbs!" -- Freedom and the right to privacy : "The only privacy that's left is the inside of your head" -- The right to vote : "It was a war long before we got here".
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910795524003321