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Congregation

Southern Spaces, 2010
In Gulfport, Mississippi and Decatur, Georgia, poet Natasha Trethewey reads "Congregation," a meditation about family members, friends, and landscape affected by Hurricane Katrina, and a coming to terms with autobiography and loss.
Natasha Trethewey
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If these stones could speak: War memorials and contested memory

Historical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education, 2021
This article explores how war memorials engage with the contested nature of public sculpture and commemoration across historical, political, aesthetic and social contexts.
Martin Kerby, M. Baguley, Alison Bedford, R. Gehrmann   +3 more
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Landscape as a mirror of memories: modern memorial practices of the Dnieper people in the context of postcolonial studies (According to field materials)

Folk art and ethnology, 2021
With the growth of modern globalization trends, researchers are increasingly focusing on the ecological and spatial features of national cultures. In the 20th century as a result of unbalanced environmental policy in the USSR, the basic principles of ...
Liubov Bosa
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Fife Family Cemetery

Southern Spaces, 2008
Sharon Fife gives a tour of her family cemetery in Hughes County, Oklahoma, and describes the Creek Christian practice of building grave houses.
Craig Womack, Rosemary McCombs Maxey
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Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston

Southern Spaces, 2019
Daniel A. Pollock reviews Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts's Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy (New York: The New Press, 2018).
Daniel A. Pollock
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Aspects of memory acts: transnational cultural memory and ethics [PDF]

Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2011
In the paper I use arguments from Ludwig Wittgenstein, John L. Austin and Judith Butler to show how the concepts of collective memory and of performativity can help to formulate some ideas about what an ethics of memory can deal with. The positions of speakers or agents and the question of responsibility play a fundamental role in this argument ...
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Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation

Southern Spaces, 2019
In the following excerpt from Civil War Places, William A. Blair reads the inscriptions on the headstones in Section 27 of Arlington National Cemetery for insights into the lives of African Americans at Arlington and other plantations in the Upper South ...
William A. Blair
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"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs

Southern Spaces, 2022
Stephanie Rountree examines the relational possibilities of queer performance in Max Vernon\'s The View UpStairs, a play that dramatizes the 1973 Up Stairs Lounge fire in New Orleans.
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Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

Southern Spaces, 2008
Allen Tullos considers the shifting political meanings of Alabama's Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Allen Tullos
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Difficult heritage and digital media: ‘selfie culture’ and emotional practices at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS), 2020
This article sheds light on the entanglements of difficult heritage and digital media through an ethnographic analysis of digital photography and social media practices at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin.
C. Bareither
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