Landscapes of Memory

Patrizia Violi is Full Professor of Semiotics in the Department of Philosophy and Communication and Coordinator of the PhD Program in Semiotics at the University of Bologna. She is Director of the School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Director of TRAME (Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Memory and Cultural Traumas; www.trame.unibo.it) at the University of Bologna. Her main areas of research include text analysis, language and gender, and semantic theory. She is currently working on cultural semiotics and traumatic memory, in particular on memorials and memory museums.

• CONTENTS: Remembering trauma: From compulsion to traumatic heritage – Spatializing trauma: From the trace to suffering as spectacle – Re-presenting the horror: The Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes in Phnom Penh, Cambodia – The rhetoric of nationhood: The Memorial Hall in Nanjing – The difficult memories of Latin American dictatorships: The case of Chile – The difficult memories of Latin American dictatorships: The case of Argentina – When trauma meets art: The Museo per la Memoria di Ustica in Bologna.

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