Thank You for Dying for Our Country: Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem

by Chaim Noy

Combining ethnographic, semiotic, and performative approaches, this book examines texts and accompanying acts of writing of national commemoration. The commemorative visitor book is viewed as a mobilized stage, a communication medium, where visitors' public performances are presented, and where acts of participation are authored and composed. The study contextualizes the visitor book within the material and ideological environment where it is positioned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199398984
• ISBN13: 9780199398980
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"