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    LANDSCAPE Ei eTa | Eaite by W. J. T. Mitchell \ EIGHT OCCT Invention, Memory i , and Place (Over the past decade, dere has heen 3 bargsoning ints in two ove lapping acs of the humanities and sal sence memory and ee ‘pene an etary amount of ieresing work work thar han (fect ected new els of sya inguy. The concen wih eto. —_Sxenample has Beant ou incode such Incrsingy prelates ‘of wting personal mers and suebsorapy, which nes ery Be tion wot af note har acme to soy main othe exposing 2alemis, sents pb Bare ans forth, The tonal ation on secalesion, confession, nd witness rn he whole gama em public ‘onfson"ain the Cinton Levnay sna eras tise the | meming of eailctive memary, extended efeton a sashes Saez fps imu cnincc embodying Fal hae mare fo ‘Sy about at tern aon, and somewhat othe margins hs bee 2 eto, sometimes biter nguy awo theauteniy of ena mene: [Besar well ay atthe rhe, eer end of the spectom, a rerakac sexi ana ofthe role of nveton in chatty tain a ‘Some example of rene and sich anguished contre ae the fa lowing Was Anne rants ary el hen or was oo red by publ he dsturtaner in er domestic ln Emope there as teen a reat and often acerbic deacon the mening of the Holos iho ole ‘of opinions 610 what happend, why it happen and wha tel Usabout the nature of Geman, Bunce aid sera ote involved cou Tulbok some years ack ele Asani of Memory aht French dees eae MMMM i all ‘ofthe Holocaust, and more recey the Pap tl in Rondeau aed fncomforale quate fled nor jn to memories ofthe Oxapain ta he cenlity of enc cllsborsors withthe Nass and what sid about Enc scleaive memories of he Vichy rep In Germany of ‘oun dat on th enon of he Seth amp an the plop ‘ils wel split meaning pesocal receives new insions of ton. trove, fled mo rece by the publication ofthe Geman tan Into of Dank! Goldhagen’s bok Fer Wiig Fseetionere In the Und Sees conser the anger pono by repreetasns ote oa flor nd members of te penctomen bythe Smtonian Inn Sten conc 4 soe of ener ofa memory in the coun — ints unsocesl atempe © moune exons, ne abou the Eola ‘Gaya athe om the Afi Ariricncapercne. Ever there wan 2 foro over an impressive exon a the Nebonal Galery of Amen Are meron We whic ut to contra epcsetations ofthe and, the Indian mes, and the condos of ie nthe Western US. during the 1860s withthe way the nd wa eng fry sted and the dans ‘kscoyed, snd the taormaton ofa once peal ral eavonment ino» predatory ust one, Senator Ted Stevens of Alka deed the ttle hinge a aackon America ven though be owed hte hi {el had not sen the exit [any cvet these conor ase the Sucson ct onl of wate srembored ut how nd nwa fr. ian ie about he very Soup ate epeserain, no saat "Menor ands epresnations ouch very significa upon questions cotintiy of ana, of ome and autho Far Fo bog {al sec infact nd se try, the say of iso wich of coame ‘the undepining of memory, bot in choo and wri, Soe Siler tent rant lt pcb on the need Wo contro {cea lotto and inde understanding of one's coun, a ‘Sonya ith As we now there's een aro debate the US. fon the mates of rational stain hoy which Hes ach Sthether George Washington ot Abram Lincoln hoa be abowed mre ‘ne than hey have at pao mtr cuca hve gered Sry angry arguments Siu ab Howard Zins has sugared nis work, ‘he as tee spc een a 10 why the say of American i {ony shoul hry oly the ig deed fbi people and neg ome non ‘nha happened to the eal es, the people who bul alos, worked The fry socied ore in the enormous nda compatin tat leat the hee of thi country's imrmens wath nd power. (He reareses ‘himblancein hs inpenive Pople His of he United Seen whch hacen so wel ove aa milion copes)! Ina rcet ae he gee sen fanher Having been aked to pate ina snp he Toston Mast, Zinn ected to ho athe wanted ‘oc other mares becuse me tha cocetraing tenon \s'no sree way to obscure the deep dovsons of race And cls it Amen ior thin by ung we in sigpt the Acton Reston and al mbes (ite Pal Rev’ sa eng ofthe we sing nt he Tigges wo the people meme Fane Hall (the wll oun

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