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Examines roots of the Holocaust and its current memorialization and interrelationship between history, memory, and public policy.

This book offers the first comprehensive study of 'sites of memory' in France connected to the history of French imperialism and colonialism, and the ways that the French have remembered or forgotten their colonial past. Through a study of monuments, memorials, museum collections and other 'sites of memory' in France connected with France's overseas empire this book analyzes the way in which French authorities marked the Paris and provincial landscapes with these reminders of France's colonial 'mission' during the period of imperial expansion, and the fate of these sites in the post-colonial p

Machine generated contents note: 1. First Things First -- Some Second Thoughts on Lesbianism -- 2. Remembering Miss Wade -- Little Dorrit and the Historicizing of Female Perversity 37 -- 3. Unmarriageable -- The Housing of Sexual Cultures in The Bostonians 57 -- 4. Remembering and Forgetting -- The Memorialization of Homosexuality in Mrs. Dalloway 77 -- 5. First Wife, Second Wife -- Sexual Perversion and the Problem of Precedence in Rebecca 1 o -- 6. Wild Life Photography -- Pulp Sexology and the Camera 122

AbstractIn the quest for "truths" and "untruths", popular discourse and state memorial practices try to stake a claim on individual and collective memories. This article attempts to unpack narratives and the memories contained within; through an analysis of state memorialization - its monuments and museums - it probes the problematics of "truth" and veracity. We begin, then, to question the constructions of taken-for-granted "truths", history and memory. In the struggle for "reality", it becomes increasingly clear that "Others" are marked out and this poses a problem for Vietnam's past, present and future social dynamics.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Overview -- Chapter 2. Holy War in the Media: Images of Jihad -- Chapter 3. Between Enemies and Traitors: Black Press Coverage of September 11 and the Predicaments of National "Others" -- Chapter 4. Commodifying September 11: Advertising, Myth, and Hegemony -- Chapter 5. Rituals of Trauma: How the Media Fabricated September 11 -- Part II: News Texts and Cultural Resonance -- Chapter 6. "America under Attack": CNN's Verbal and Visual Framing of September 11 -- Chapter 7. Internet News Representations of September 11: Archival Impulse in the Age of Information -- Chapter 8. Reporting, Remembering, and Reconstructing September 11, 2001 -- Chapter 9. Creating Memories: Exploring How Narratives Help Define the Memorialization of Tragedy -- Part III: Popular Narratives -- Chapter 10. Step Aside, Superman... This Is a Job for [Captain] America! Comic Books and Superheroes Post September 11 -- Chapter 11. Of Heroes and Superheroes -- Chapter 12. Narrative Reconstruction at Ground Zero -- Chapter 13. Agony and Art: The Songs of September 11 -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- About the Contributors.