Views of Violence (Paperback)

Stephan Jaeger

ISBN 10: 1800736479 / ISBN 13: 9781800736474

Verlag: Berghahn Books, Oxford, 2022

Beschreibung

Paperback. Focus on WWII related memories in museum and memorials International comparison (Germany and austria in the wider Wetern and Eastern European context + North America) Views of Violencepresents the first edited collection on the English-speaking market that targets the specific media/genres of museums and memorials in regard to representation of the Second World War in the wider context of European memory culture. It also is the first volume that specifically highlights visualization and spatialization techniques / aspects in this context. The comparative approach of our book project in which each individual chapter compares current German and Austrian representations of the war with other representations in other European countries allows to discuss whether museums / memorials go (or don't go) beyond the national. Whereas the Anglo-American discussion strongly focuses on Holocaust representation / memory culture about the Holocaust, this volume highlights the complex relationship of the Second World War, the Holocaust, and other discourses, of suffering and commemoration. Public history and the history of European memory have produced comparative volumes on European memory cultures, but there is no specific study on the media / genres of museums and memorials in this context. The modern vision of historical violence has been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. This volume takes a historical perspective on World War II museums and explores how these institutions came to define the broader European, and even global, political contexts and cultures of public memory. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781800736474

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Views of Violence (Paperback)
• Verlag: Berghahn Books, Oxford
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1800736479
• ISBN-13: 9781800736474
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephan Jaeger is a Professor of German Studies and the Head of the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba. His research covers narratives, representations and memory of war in German and European museums, literature, film, and historiography. He is co-editor of the book series Museums and Narrative (with De Gruyter). His books include Performative Geschichtsschreibung (2011) and The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Memory, Narrative, and Experience to Experientiality (2020).