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LAPSES IN MEMORY: SLAVERY MEMORIALS
AND HISTORICAL AMNESIA IN THE UNITED STATES
by
Tiffany Elizabeth Barber
________________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC, ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF PUBLIC ART STUDIES
May 2008
Copyright 2008 Tiffany Elizabeth Barber
Object Description
| Title | Lapses in memory: slavery memorials and historical amnesia in the United States |
| Author | Barber, Tiffany Elizabeth |
| Author email | tbarber@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Public Art Studies |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Public Art Studies |
| School | School of Fine Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-04-01 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-05-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Firstenberg, Lauri |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Gray, Herman Decter, Joshua Weisberg, Ruth |
| Abstract | The monuments and memorials scattered across a nation 's landscape create permanent records of place and time. These permanent records particularize history and memory. The atrocities of war, genocide, apartheid and slavery form a historical category of cultural trauma that exists as part of a country 's individual and collective narratives, subsequently complicating memory and memorialization. This thesis locates slavery memorials as a typology of public commemoration. In doing so, it highlights the historical amnesia facilitated by a lack of official commissions representative of the trauma of slavery in the United States. This analysis also explores the existing scholarship on nationhood, cultural trauma, memory, and identifies potential strategies for reconciling a nation 's traumatic past vis-à-vis public commemorations. Finally, this research examines the public art genre of monuments and memorials as a coping mechanism for traumatized communities. |
| Keyword | American studies; cultural trauma; memory; memorialization; reconstruction; public art |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | after 1865 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1227 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Barber, Tiffany Elizabeth |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Barber-20080505 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Barber-20080505.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | LAPSES IN MEMORY: SLAVERY MEMORIALS AND HISTORICAL AMNESIA IN THE UNITED STATES by Tiffany Elizabeth Barber ________________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC, ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF PUBLIC ART STUDIES May 2008 Copyright 2008 Tiffany Elizabeth Barber |
