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Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy focuses on mapping, analyzing, and evaluating memories, rituals, and artistic responses to the theme of "liberation." The contributors offer a wide range of diverse intercultural perspectives on media, memory, liberation, (self)Americanization, and conceptualizations of democracy.
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Politics and Cultures of Liberation
Part 1 The Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Marketing, Memory and Mediation
An Invasion of a Different Kind: The U.S. Office of War Information and "The Projection of America" Propaganda in the Netherlands, 1944-1945
Marja Roholl
Educating the Nation: Jo Spier, Dutch National Identity, and the Marshall Plan in the Netherlands
Mathilde Roza
From Memory Repression to Memorialization: The Bombardments of Nijmegen 1944 and Mortsel 1943
Joost Rosendaal
Playing in the Ruins of Arnhem: Reenacting Operation Market Garden in Theirs Is the Glory
László Munteán
"Can Anybody Fly This Thing?" Appropriations of History in Reenactments of Operation Market Garden
Wolfgang Hochbruck
On the Road to Nijmegen—Earle Birney and Alex Colville, 1944-1945
Hans Bak
Part 2 The Soundtrack of Liberation
Liberation Songs: Music and the Cultural Memory of the Dutch Summer of 1945
Frank Mehring
The Reception and Development of Jazz in the Netherlands (1945-1970s)
Walter van de Leur
Sounds of Freedom, Cosmopolitan Democracy, and Shifting Cultural Politics: From "The Jazz Ambassador Tours" to "The Rhythm Road"
Wilfried Raussert
Part 3 Transnational Re-Locations
Marching Towards Kullman's Diner: Performing Transnational American Sites (of Memory) in Bavaria
Birgit M. Bauridl
The Promise of Democracy for the Americas: U.S. Diplomacy and the Meaning(s) of World War II in El Salvador, 1941-1945
Jorrit van den Berk
Liberation and Lingering Trauma: U.S. Present and Haitian Past in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker
Josef Raab
The Japanese American Relocation Center at Heart Mountain and the Construction of the Post-World War II Landscape
Eric J. Sandeen
Part 4 Transnational Perspectives from the Archives
The Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers
Doug McCabe
"Quality First!" American Aid to the Nijmegen University Library, 1945-1949
Léon Stapper
The Marshall Plan: "A Short Time to Change the World"
Linda Christenson and Eric Christenson
The Liberation Route Europe: Challenges of Exhibiting Multinational Perspectives
Jory Brentjens and Wiel Lenders
