Figures of Memory
The Rhetoric of Displacement at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
1st Edition
Published on 25. March 2016
234 pages
978-1-4384-6078-9 (ISBN)
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Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate.
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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).
Content
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
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
