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The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality
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Abstract The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It analyzes twelve permanent exhibitions in Europ... mehr
The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It analyzes twelve permanent exhibitions in Europe and North America - including the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, the House of European History in Brussels, the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester, and the National WWII Museum in New Orleans - in order to show how museums reflect and shape cultural memory, as well as their cognitive, ethical, emotional, and aesthetic potential and effects. This includes a discussion of representations of events such as the Holocaust and air warfare. In relation to narrative, memory, and experience, the study develops the concept of experientiality (on a sliding scale between mimetic and structural forms), which provides a new textual-spatial method for reading exhibitions and understanding the experiences of historical individuals and collectives. It is supplemented by concepts like transnational memory, empathy, and encouraging critical thinking through difficult knowledge.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Zweiter Weltkrieg; Judenverfolgung; Völkermord; Drittes Reich; Repräsentation; Museum; kollektives Gedächtnis; Erinnerung
Klassifikation
allgemeine Geschichte
Freie Schlagwörter
Holocaust Representation; Transnational Memory
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Verlag
De Gruyter
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Seitenangabe
354 S.
Schriftenreihe
Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, 26
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110664416
ISBN
978-3-11-066441-6
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0