TY - BOOK ID - 78341506 TI - Figures of Memory : The Rhetoric of Displacement at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum PY - 2016 SN - 1438460783 9781438460789 9781438460772 1438460775 PB - Albany : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Museums KW - Museum exhibits KW - Museum visitors KW - Rhetoric and psychology. KW - Displacement (Psychology) KW - Memorials KW - Memory KW - Public institutions KW - Cabinets of curiosities KW - Display techniques KW - Displays, Museum KW - Museum displays KW - Exhibitions KW - Museum techniques KW - Visitors to museums KW - Persons KW - Museum attendance KW - Psychology and rhetoric KW - Rhetoric KW - Literature KW - Psychology KW - Displacement behavior in humans KW - Defense mechanisms (Psychology) KW - Human behavior KW - Psychology, Pathological KW - Sublimation (Psychology) KW - Commemorations KW - Historic sites KW - Memorialization KW - Monuments KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - Psychology. KW - Social aspects KW - Visitors KW - Psychological aspects KW - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. KW - U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum KW - US Holocaust Memorial Museum KW - Holocaust Museum (United States) KW - USHMM KW - Мемориальный музей Холокоста США KW - Memorialʹnyĭ muzeĭ Kholokosta SShA UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78341506 AB - "Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate. Figures of Memory examines how the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC, uses its space and the design of its exhibits to 'move' its visitors to memory. From the objects and their placement to the architectural design of the building and the floor plan, the USHMM was meant to teach visitors about the Holocaust. But what Michael Bernard-Donals found is that while they learn, and remember, the Holocaust, visitors also call to mind other, sometimes unrelated memories. Partly this is because memory itself works in multidirectional ways, but partly it's because of decisions made in the planning that led to the creation of the museum. Drawing on material from the USHMM's institutional archive, including meeting minutes, architectural renderings, visitor surveys, and comments left by visitors, Figures of Memory is both a theoretical exploration of memory--its relation to identity, space, and ethics--and a practical analysis of one of the most discussed memorials in the United States. The book also extends recent discussions of the rhetoric of memorial sites and museums by arguing that sites like the USHMM don't so much 'make a case for' events through the act of memorialization, but actually displace memory, disturbing it--and the museum visitor--so much so that they call it into question. Memory, like rhetorical figures, moves, and the USHMM moves its visitors, figuratively and literally, both to and beyond the events the museum is meant to commemorate"--From publisher's website. ER -