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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New Brunswick
Rutgers University Press
2017
New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018] New Brunswick, New Jersey : [2018] New Brunswick, [New Jersey] : 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Memorial museums: the emergence of a new form
- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum: the creation of a "living memorial"
- The House of Terror: "the only one of its kind"
- The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre: building a "lasting peace"
- The Museum of Memory and Human Rights: "a living museum for Chile's memory"
- The National September 11 Memorial Museum: "to bear solemn witness"
- Memorial museums: promises and limits
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 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
- Notes
- References
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR