By Udo J. Hebel
The quantity extends scholary explorations of U.S. American cultures of reminiscence, commemorative identification building, and the politics of remembrance into the topical box of transnational and comparative American experiences. The interdisciplinary variety of concerns and fabrics engaged comprises literary texts, own money owed, and cultural performances from colonial occasions throughout the rapid current, the importance of warfare monuments and ethnic memorials in Europe, Asia, and the united states, movies approximately 9-11, public sculptures and the advantageous arts, American world´s gala's as foreign websites of reminiscence.
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