LIVING WITH WAR. Twentieth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and Memory

The Conclusion ties together the book’s main arguments about Crispus Attucks’s place in American history and memory. We do not know enough about his experiences, associations, or motives before or during the Boston Massacre to conclude with certainty that Attucks should be considered a hero and patriot. But his presence in that mob on March 5, 1770, embodies the diversity of colonial America and the active participation of workers and people of color in the public life of the Revolutionary era. The strong likelihood that Attucks was a former slave who claimed his own freedom and carved out a life for himself in the colonial Atlantic world adds to his story’s historical significance. The lived realities of Crispus Attucks and the many other men and women like him must be a part of Americans’ understanding of the nation’s founding generations.

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James Baldwin

10.31338/uw.9788323551317 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Short Stories ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

American History ◽

James Baldwin ◽

First Century ◽

Black Lives Matter ◽

Twenty First Century

The book is devoted to the works of James Baldwin, one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. The authors examine his most important contributions – including novels, essays, short stories, poetry, and media appearances – in the wider context of American history. They demonstrate the lasting importance of his oeuvre, which was central to the Civil Rights Movement and continues to be relevant at the dawn of the twenty-first century and the Black Lives Matter era.

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Chris Marker: Interactive Screen and Memory

Post-1990 Documentary ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694136.003.0006 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Kristian Feigelson

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

General Public ◽

Entire Body ◽

History And Memory ◽

Non Linear ◽

Chris Marker ◽

Unique Relationship ◽

Looking Back

Chris Marker (1921–2012), the creator of more than eighty films, has become a source of fascination for an entire generation of documentary filmmakers, as well as for the general public. Video and digital technical advancements allowed Marker to further develop his inquiry into image objectivity, and to keep looking back on the history and memory of the twentieth century in a non-linear, reflexive and interactive manner. This chapter examines the continuities and breaks in Marker's uses of technology and his views on history, as well as the specific bond he created with his audience. This unique relationship, which characterises Marker's entire body of work, stems from his concern with interactivity: an idea that operates under different definitions and is manifested in diverse ways within his art. Above all, his main objective concerns the circulation of images that explore cinema's various visual frameworks and how they transcribe history in different ways.

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