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Affective Heritage and the Politics of Memory after 9/11 - Curating Trauma at the Memorial Museum (Paperback)
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Affective Heritage and the Politics of Memory after 9/11 - Curating Trauma at the Memorial Museum (Paperback)
Series: Interventions
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This book critically examines the institutional curation of
traumatic memory at the 9/11 Memorial Museum and its evocative
power as a cultural storyteller. Memorial Museums are evocative
spaces. Drawing on aesthetic practices deeply rooted in
representing the 'unrepresentability' of cultural trauma, most
notably the Holocaust, Memorial Museums are powerful, popular
mediums for establishing cultural values, asking the visitor to
contemplate "Who am I?" in relation to the difficult histories on
display. Using primary data, this book poses important questions
about the emotionally-charged site: what 'moral lessons' are
visitors imparted with at the 9/11 Memorial Museum? Who is the
cultural institution's primary audience-the imagined community it
reconstructs this traumatic history and safeguards its memories
for? What does the National September 11 Memorial & Museum
ultimately teach visitors about history, ourselves, and others?
This work will be of interest to students and scholars in the areas
of Human Geography, American Studies, Museum Studies and Public
History, Cultural and Heritage Studies, and Trauma and Memory
Studies.
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