History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from September 2011

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from September 2011

Sofia was bombed? Bulgaria's forgotten war with the allies.
September 22, 2011... In 2004, at the height of anti-American sentiments over the "War on Terror" and Iraq, a small sapphire-colored volume, entitled The American Terrorism over Bulgarians, came out in Bulgaria. Its cover grabbed the attention with a vintage...

Commemoration from a distance: on metamemorial fiction.(Essay)
September 22, 2011... Exploring two works of contemporary American and South African fiction, this essay meditates on memorials created at a distance from original sites of violence. These two metamemorial fictions both make concerns with comparative suffering and...

Squiggle evidence: the child, the canvas, and the "negative labor" of history.(Report)
September 22, 2011... "This game that I like playing has no rules." (1) The game would later be described as D. W. Winnicott's "most famous technical invention." (2) Winnicott himself gave it a more humble name: "the squiggle game." In this game with no rules, the...

Narrating Genoa: documentaries of the Italian G8 protests of 2001 and the persistence and politics of memory.
September 22, 2011... On July 18-22, 2001, the Group of Eight (G8), the annual forum bringing together leaders from eight of the world's most powerful economies, convened in Genoa, Italy, against the backdrop of massive organized protests. Those four days in July...

"Sacrilege of a strange, contemporary kind": the unknown soldier and the imagined community after the Vietnam War.
September 22, 2011... On Memorial Day 1984, an unidentified set of remains from the Vietnam War was buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. Addressing the nation from Arlington's Memorial Amphitheater, President Ronald Reagan...