Tangled Memories

Author : Marita Sturken
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520918122
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tangled Memories written by Marita Sturken and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-02-28 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship of camera images to the production of cultural memory, the mixing of fantasy and reenactment in memory, the role of trauma and survivors in creating cultural comfort, and how discourses of healing can smooth over the tensions of political events. Sturken's discussion encompasses a brilliant comparison of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt; her profound reading of the Memorial as a national wailing wall—one whose emphasis on the veterans and war dead has allowed the discourse of heroes, sacrifice, and honor to resurface at the same time that it is an implicit condemnation of war—is particularly compelling. The book also includes discussions of the Kennedy assassination, the Persian Gulf War, the Challenger explosion, and the Rodney King beating. While debunking the image of the United States as a culture of amnesia, Sturken also shows how remembering itself is a form of forgetting, and how exclusion is a vital part of memory formation.

Author : Jackie Weger
Publisher : Written Musings
ISBN 13 : 1955642109
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tangled Memories written by Jackie Weger and published by Written Musings. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling for the wrong man landed Stormy Maxwell in jail for eleven months for a bank robbery she says she didn’t commit. Now Stormy’s out and trying to restart her life with her seven-year-old daughter, but another man wants something from her. Tyler Mangus is an asset-recovery agent tasked with recovering the stolen money. Stormy insists she’s innocent and doesn’t know where the money is. Tyler knows she’s guilty and intends to do his job. Neither will give an inch. Their test of endurance will end with a confession, but will it be about money…or love? What readers are saying about Jackie’s books: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Ms. Weger’s writing style is honest and down-to-earth. Her characters are well developed, realistic, and draw you in quickly.” — Big Al’s Books and Pals Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Jackie Weger writes fluently, understandably, makes it flow with pitch and power.” — Read Along with Sue ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Jackie Weger is a gem. I found her writing very unique and comfortable and so annoyingly beautiful.” — Coffeeholic Bookworm

Author : Teresa Waltz
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452086214
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tangled Memories written by Teresa Waltz and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and heartbreak has affected Celebrity Magazine writer, Anne Sherman her entire life. After losing her fiancé in a tragic accident, she gave up her dreams of marriage and a family, instead spending the last ten years building her reputation as one of the top writers in the industry. An assignment to interview the reclusive novelist, Dave Beaumont begins a series of bizarre events that seem to draw the two writers closer, while also threatening to tear them apart. The couple struggles to find an answer to the phenomena that is tampering with their relationship before it’s too late. True, deep and abiding love transcends time and space, heaven and earth, finding its soul mate where and when one least suspects it. * * * Dave stood and started down the steps to the beach. He imagined that it would probably feel like being rocked to sleep as the waves pulled him further out to sea. The tears were streaming down his face and the sobs were beginning to build but he refused to let them come. He hadn’t sobbed out loud as a young child and he wouldn’t begin now. He did however bow his head and pray that God would forgive him. “Please God, forgive me. I simply cannot go on alone like this anymore.” Alone at home Anne began to thrash around in the bed, Dave was in trouble; where was he? Anne looked everywhere she could think of but couldn’t see him. Panic set in and she felt claustrophobic as the dark shrouded fog crept around her like it was attempting to close her in. “Dave, Dave, where are you?” she screamed again and again. Anne began running towards the only light visible in the fog. She couldn’t make out what it was but at least it looked like an opening out of the darkness that surrounded her. Looking ahead she could make out the figure of a man walking towards the ocean. It looked like Dave, but she couldn’t be sure. What in the world was he doing walking into the surf with his clothes on? Just then the man turned and looked straight at her and she gasped. It was Dave, and he looked so forlorn that it broke her heart. He gave her one long last look and then disappeared into the surf. “Da-a-ve, come back!”

Author : Marta Perry
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1426845707
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tangled Memories written by Marta Perry and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digging into her father’s past brings a woman closer to danger in this inspirational romantic suspense novel. Finally meeting the wealthy family she’d never known should have given Corrie Grant the information about her father she’d craved all her life. But the Mannings of Savannah were a secretive and hostile bunch. All except Lucas Santee, her grandfather’s sophisticated right-hand man, who stood between Corrie and her relatives’ unrelenting barbs and slights. The family’s suspicion of her seemed frivolous at first, but when a mysterious series of accidents occurred, Corrie was forced to take it seriously. How far would the Mannings go to keep their secrets buried forever?

Author : Suhi Choi
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874179378
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embattled Memories written by Suhi Choi and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean War has been called the “forgotten war,” not as studied as World War II or Vietnam. Choi examines the collective memory of the Korean War through five discrete memory sites in the United States and South Korea, including the PBS documentary Battle for Korea, the Korean War Memorial in Salt Lake City, and the statue of General Douglas MacArthur in Incheon, South Korea. She contends that these sites are not static; rather, they are active places where countermemories of the war clash with the official state-sanctioned remembrance. Through lively and compelling analysis of these memory sites, which include two differing accounts of the No Gun Ri massacre\--contemporaneous journalism and oral histories by survivors\--Choi shows diverse narratives of the Korean War competing for dominance in acts of remembering. Embattled Memories is an important interdisciplinary work in two fields, memory studies and public history, from an understudied perspective, that of witnesses to the Korean War.

Author : Øyvind Vågnes
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292742584
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zaprudered written by Øyvind Vågnes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Peter C. Rollins Book Award, 2012 As the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination approaches, the traumatic aspects of the tragedy continue to haunt our perceptions of the 1960s. One reason for this lies in the home movie of the incident filmed by Abraham Zapruder, a bystander who became one of the twentieth century's most important accidental documentarians. The first book devoted exclusively to the topic, Zaprudered traces the journey of the film and its effect on the world's collective imagination. Providing insightful perspective as an observer of American culture, Norwegian media studies scholar Øyvind Vågnes begins by analyzing three narratives that are projections of Zapruder's images: performance group Ant Farm's video The Eternal Frame, Don DeLillo's novel Underworld, and an episode from Seinfeld. Subsequent topics he investigates include Dealey Plaza's Sixth Floor Museum, Zoran Naskovski's installation Death in Dallas, assassin video games, and other artifacts of the ways in which the footage has made a lasting impact on popular culture and the historical imagination. Vågnes also explores the role of other accidental documentarians, such as those who captured scenes of 9/11. Zapruder's footage has never yielded a conclusive account of what happened in Dealey Plaza. Zaprudered thoroughly examines both this historical enigma and its indelible afterimages in our collective imagination.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900441455X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Filipino American Transnational Activism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filipino American Transnational Activism: Diasporic Politics among the Second Generation offers an account of how U.S. born and raised Filipinos engage in Philippines, “homeland”-oriented activism.

Author : Steven Erikson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765348802
Total Pages : 945 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of Ice written by Steven Erikson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A third volume of the fantasy epic that began with Gardens of the Moon finds the uneasy alliance between Onearm's army and Whiskeyjack's Bridgeburners against the Pannion Domin empire further challenged by rumors that the Crippled God has escaped and is out for revenge. Reprint.

Author : David Naze
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803290829
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming 42: Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson’s Radical Legacy written by David Naze and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming 42 centers on one of America’s most respected cultural icons, Jackie Robinson, and the forgotten aspects of his cultural legacy. Since his retirement in 1956, and more strongly in the last twenty years, America has primarily remembered Robinson’s legacy in an oversimplified way, as the pioneering first black baseball player to integrate the Major Leagues. The mainstream commemorative discourse regarding Robinson’s career has been created and directed largely by Major League Baseball (MLB), which sanitized and oversimplified his legacy into narratives of racial reconciliation that celebrate his integrity, character, and courage while excluding other aspects of his life, such as his controversial political activity, his public clashes with other prominent members of the black community, and his criticism of MLB. MLB’s commemoration of Robinson reflects a professional sport that is inclusive, racially and culturally tolerant, and largely postracial. Yet Robinson’s identity—and therefore his memory—has been relegated to the boundaries of a baseball diamond and to the context of a sport, and it is within this oversimplified legacy that history has failed him. The dominant version of Robinson’s legacy ignores his political voice during and after his baseball career and pays little attention to the repercussions that his integration had on many factions within the black community. Reclaiming 42 illuminates how public memory of Robinson has undergone changes over the last sixty-plus years and moves his story beyond Robinson the baseball player, opening a new, broader interpretation of an otherwise seemingly convenient narrative to show how Robinson’s legacy ultimately should both challenge and inspire public memory.

Author : Jan Scarbrough
Publisher : Saddle Horse Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0989873056
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tangled Memories written by Jan Scarbrough and published by Saddle Horse Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-01-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing his wife, Dr. Alexander Dominican is determined his infant daughter will not grow up motherless as he did. Offering sensible, kind kindergarten teacher Mary Adams a marriage of convenience seems like the perfect solution. The widow’s husband left her with a mountain of debt. For Alex, paying it off is a small price to pay for his daughter’s happiness. Until his sensible new wife begins to lose her mind. On the day of their marriage, Mary starts having frightening hallucinations of medieval England—visions that feel more like the memories of woman who lived centuries before. More terrifying, someone—or some thing—is stalking the new mistress of Marchbrook Manor. Could it be one of the sinister servants? Or Alex himself? Alex is reawakening hidden desires and longings in Mary, but until she can untangle the web of nightmares and secrets, she can trust no one. Not even Alex. Alex has no idea he’s unleashing a destiny that’s taken him seven hundred years to fulfill. If Alex and Mary are to salvage their future, they must first unravel centuries of…Tangled Memories.