Essays about: "memorialization"
Found 5 essays containing the word memorialization.
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1. New Holocaust Literature: Third-Generation Identity, Memory, and the Reader in Hanna Rajs' Under Månen (2020)
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : This thesis explores the functions of memory, collective identity, and communication of those same categories to the reader by means of the poetic form in Hanna Rajs’ poetry collection Under månen (2020). Situated or framed within a discussion on Holocaust Literature, Rajs’ poetry is considered in the light of a general historical purview of Holocaust writing, and her specific place within an authorial Jewish third-generation tradition in diaspora, specifically in Sweden and in Europe. READ MORE
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2. Press ‘F’ to pay respects : Grief and memorialization in video games
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för informationsteknologiAbstract : This paper aims to present, discuss, and analyze the potential role of digital games within practices of memory, bereavement, and inheritance. The paper examines how users inhabit game environments, how their in-game memories and identities extend into the real world, and what kind of digital legacy players may be leaving behind. READ MORE
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3. Japanese Urban Tree Burials: Diversity and Individualization
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : Parallel with demographic concerns and an individualization process alternative burial practices in Japan have developed. One of them is tree burials that eliminates obligations for descendants to tend the grave, takes up relatively little space in a graveyard and enables memorialization while also providing an opportunity for the dead to remove one’s self from household constraints. READ MORE
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4. Memorializing Babyn Yar : Politics of Memory and Commemoration of the Holocaust in Ukraine
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudierAbstract : Recently in the West, interest in the memory of the Holocaust considered as a commonly shared dark past has increased. In Ukraine the commemoration of the Holocaust is affected by the ongoing nation-building process, with a focus on the collective memories of the Holodomor (the Famine of 1932-1933) and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). READ MORE
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5. Connective Boundaries - Proposal for a secular funerary ceremony in Torup Beech forest
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljöAbstract : Connective Boundaries is a personal reflection on how a worthy and comforting funeral ceremony can be designed without religious convictions. It begins with the acknowledgment that, today, the tension between the personal and the social experience of death has led to attempts to sanitize, hide and compartmentalize both the mourner and the deceased, alienating both. READ MORE