Plastic pasts : sited memory in Paris, Algiers and Marseille / Christopher Leffler.
Leffler, Christopher, author.
2023
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Title Plastic pasts : sited memory in Paris, Algiers and Marseille / Christopher Leffler.
Author Leffler, Christopher, author.
ISBN 9789819956166 (electronic bk.)
9819956161 (electronic bk.)
9789819956159
9819956153
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5616-6
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-99-5616-6 doi
Call Number GF571
Dewey Decimal Classification 304.20944
Summary This book uses plasticity as a metaphor for understanding how the past endures and evolves within the landscape, and the ways in which remembering shapes the sites we occupy and use. The plastic site is characterised both by its resilience, its form never entirely altered from an earlier mould, and by its malleability, which ensures that whatever persists is inevitably transformed. Embodied in its present configuration are the many moments that have produced it over time, and these are continually supplemented and modified. Surveying examples from Paris, Algiers and Marseille, and media as diverse as literature, film, photography, blogs and video games, Plastic Pasts interrogates how different communities and cultural producers have grappled with the present past in space as an enduring and dynamic memory. It argues that understanding sited memory as plastic entails recognising a multiplicity of immutable pasts that exist in a permanent state of ongoing evolution.
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Introduction
The Seine: Modernity, Memory and Models of Time
The Hôtels Aletti and Saint-George: the lieu de mémoire and the survivance
The Cimetière des Saints-Innocents: The lieu malgré tout and remediation
Marseille: Memory in the imagined landscape
Conclusion.

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