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Figures of Memory: The Rhetoric of Displacement at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Figures of Memory: The Rhetoric of Displacement at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Bernard-Donals, Michael

Paperback

Business GeneralLiterary CriticismHolocaust

ISBN10: 1438460767
ISBN13: 9781438460765
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2017
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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

Figures of Memory examines how the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC, uses its space and the design of its exhibits to move its visitors to memory. From the objects and their placement to the architectural design of the building and the floor plan, the USHMM was meant to teach visitors about the Holocaust. But what Michael Bernard-Donals found is that while they learn, and remember, the Holocaust, visitors also call to mind other, sometimes unrelated memories. Partly this is because memory itself works in multidirectional ways, but partly it's because of decisions made in the planning that led to the creation of the museum.

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