The Nanjing Massacre Memorial and Angelus Novus: Ephemera, Trauma, and Reparation in Contemporary Chinese Public Art
What is the nature of memorials? Traditionally, memorials have been conceptualized as lasting entities preserving memories of our shared pasts. This paper challenges this view. My aim is to retheorize our practices of memorialization by examining the role that ephemerality plays in experiential memo...
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Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2022-08-01
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Series: | Aisthesis |
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Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/13581 |