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Title: A LATE ENCOUNTER WITH THE CIVIL WAR
By: Michael Kreyling
Format: Hardback

List price: £50.50


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ISBN 10: 0820346195
ISBN 13: 9780820346199
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS
Pub. date: 30 November, 2013
Series: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures No. 55
Pages: 128
Language: English, Multiple languages
Description: Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States, revealing as much about our sense of place in the present as our conception of the past. These essays explore the mechanisms by which each era has staged, written, and thought about the meaning of the Civil War.
Synopsis: In A Late Encounter with the Civil War, Michael Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States. When significant anniversaries arrive in the histories of groups such as families, businesses or nations, their members set aside time to formally remember their shared past. This phenomenon - this social or collective memory - reveals as much about a group's sense of place in the present as it does about the events of the past. So it is with the Civil War. As a nation, we have formally remembered two Civil War anniversaries, the 50th and 100th. We are now in the complicated process of remembering the war for a third time. Kreyling reminds us that we were a different "we" for each of the earlier commemorations and that "we" are certainly different now, not only because the president in office for the 150th anniversary represents a member of the race for whose emancipation from slavery the war was waged. These essays explore the conscious and unconscious mechanisms by which each era has staged, written and thought about the meaning of the Civil War.Kreyling engages the not-quite-conscious agendas at work in the rituals of remembering through fiction, film, graphic novels and other forms of expression. Each cultural example wrestles with the current burden of remembering: What are we attempting to do with a memory that, to many, seems irrelevant or so far in the past as to be almost irretrievable?
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Returns: Returnable
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