... This chapter focuses on the ceremonial activities that take place in and around the memorial to commemorate the Pearl Harbor attack and related events. After an analysis of the ritual politics of military ceremony, the chapter relates the story about the way that the author was enlisted...

... This chapter interweaves examples of culture and commemoration from the 1940s through the early 1990s, showing how invocations of the column became a way for people across Brazil and abroad to express their hopes and grievances. By examining cultural production (namely, poems and novels) along...

...Performative Commemorations ...

...Commemorating São Paulo Despite its defeat in 1932 and Vargas’s repeated political victories, by the 1950s São Paulo had become even more dominant economically, and its capital had become Brazil’s largest city. It is in this context that civic boosters in the state capital planned the massive...

... stand in direct contrast to more formal sites of commemoration. The chapter argues that as such, they facilitate an emotional connection to the past for a generation that does not remember the Korean War, but in so doing, risk confusing memory with affect, making history increasingly difficult...

... commemorations industrialization growth spectacles migration progress ...

... film forgetting commemoration remembering Yugoslav wars ...

... commemoration ritual practice national ceremony America Japan ...