Bernard-Donals Figures of Memory

The Rhetoric of Displacement at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6078-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernard-Donals, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Displacements of Memory at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

1. Delinquent Spaces

2. Figures of Authenticity

3. Enacting Memory

4. Kairotic Space and the Ethics of Engagement

5. “Events of the World” The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Ethics of Memory

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Bernard-Donals is Nancy Hoefs Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His books include Forgetful Memory: Representation and Remembrance in the Wake of the Holocaust, also published by SUNY Press, and Jewish Rhetorics: History, Theory, Practice (coedited with Janice W. Fernheimer).