Figures of Memory: The Rhetoric of Displacement at the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumMichael F. Bernard-Donals
Michael F. Bernard-Donals’ previous work interrogated the boundaries between history and memory and examined how Holocaust survivors and scholars create representations of the Holocaust, with an emphasis on ethics, authenticity, limitations, and rhetoric work. A truly interdisciplinary scholar, he d...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 494-496 |
| Review of: | Figures of memory (Albany : SUNY Press, 2016) (Mengerink, Mark A.)
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| Summary: | Michael F. Bernard-Donals’ previous work interrogated the boundaries between history and memory and examined how Holocaust survivors and scholars create representations of the Holocaust, with an emphasis on ethics, authenticity, limitations, and rhetoric work. A truly interdisciplinary scholar, he draws here on literary theory, philosophy, and history. He mines the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) institutional archives, including committee reports, committee meeting minutes, and visitor comments, to analyze memory, representation, rhetoric, and authenticity as they relate the design and implementation of the museum. Following an introduction establishing the theoretical framework of his study, Bernard-Donals presents five chapters of analysis. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcy049 |