Calling Memory into Place
How can memory be mobilized for social justice? How can inherited family and cultural traumas be channeled in productive ways? In this deeply personal work, I examine artworks and tell autobiographical stories to fuel a process of “unforgetting.” Ten essays shift between the scholarly, the personal, and the visual as different modes of knowing, and suggest how awareness of historical trauma is deeply inscribed on the body. By investigating the relations among place, memory, and identity, this study shines a light on the dynamic nature of memory as it crosses geography and generations.
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Dora Apel
DORA APEL is the W. Hawkins Ferry Endowed Chair Professor Emerita in Modern and Contemporary Art History at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her many books include Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob and Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing (both Rutgers University Press).
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