Exhibiting Atrocity : Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence /
Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, and/or other symbolic or material reparations. Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the me...
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Serie: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sommario:
- 1. Memorial museums : the emergence of a new form
- 2. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum : the creation of a "living memorial"
- 3. The House of Terror : "the only one of its kind"
- 4. The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre : building a "lasting peace"
- 5. The Museum of Memory and Human Rights : "a living museum for Chile's memory"
- 6. The National September 11 Memorial Museum : "to bear solemn witness"
- 7. Memorial museums : promises and limits.