Who Tells Your Story

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On the Construction of Public Memory

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Who Tells Your Story gathers contemporary analyses of monument and commemoration controversies from across the United States and the world. Sanford Levinson and the contributors in this volume ask whose stories get to be told, who gets to tell them, what happens when monuments disappear, and how these memorials impact national narratives. From the removal of Confederate statutes in the United States and those of Lenin in Ukraine to the efficacy of national holidays in furthering the causes they claim to celebrate, these essays dissect how the collaborative process of memorialization brings purported intention, private agenda, and final outcome into constant friction with each other. Who Tells Your Story is an accessible and provoking examination on public memory and what forces shape it.Contributors. Zachary Bray, Deborah Gerhardt, Emily Greenfield, Randall Kennedy, Larysa Kulyvas, Sanford Levinson, Kimberly Probolus, Kermit Roosevelt III, Anna Saunders, Richard C. Shragger, Bruce Scates, Agata Tatarenko, Aleksandra Kucynskak-Zonik

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-22
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt445 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478038733

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Part I. General Reflections on Public MemoryIntroduction. Remembrance, Forgetfulness, and Public Memory / Sanford Levinson 31. Public Monuments, Public Schools, Public Stories / Kermit Roosevelt III 21Part II. Two American Icons2. The Jefferson Images at Monticello / Emily Bradley Greenfield 433. King Day / Randall Kennedy 71Part III. The Particular Problem of Remembering the Civil War4. Creating Space for Reflection in Memorial Design / Deborah R. Gerhardt 875. After They Fall: Case Studies of Confederate Monuments Postremoval / Kimberly Probolus 115Part IV. But the Civil War is Not the Only Issue for Americans6. The Cross, the Confederate, and the Constitution / Richard C. Schragger 1437. In the Shadows of the Looming Oaks: Monumental Lessons from Prophetstown and Tippecanoe / Zachary Bray 1718. The National Holodomor Memorial in Washington, DC / Larysa Kurylas 197Part V. America is Not Unique: Three Case Studies in Grappling with Complex National Histories9. Monumental Shifts: Indigenous Sovereignty, Commemorative Politics, and Australia’s Statue Wars / Bruce Scates 22110. Multidirectional Memorial Activism in Germany: The Limits of National Memory Narratives? / Anna Saunders 25111. Soviet Monuments as a Security Threat: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe / Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik and Agata Tatarenko 273Acknowledgments 299Contributors 301Index