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Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires : balancing memory, architecture, and tourism / Brigitte Sion.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sion, Brigitte, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust memorials--Germany--Berlin.
- Holocaust memorials.
- Holocaust memorials--Argentina--Buenos Aires.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture.
- Architecture and tourism--Germany.
- Architecture and tourism.
- Architecture and tourism--Argentina.
- Berlin (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Berlin (Germany).
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (151 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <span><span>This book examines the conflicting performances that take place at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Memorial to the Victims of State Terror in Buenos Aires. Sion offers an interdisciplinary model for analyzing sites of memory, their purpose, failure and success, and their part in a transnational circuit of remembrance practices.</span></span>
- Contents:
- The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the Parque de la Memoria in historical context
- Commemorating absent bodies
- Self-Indicting monuments
- Embodied memory
- Death tourism and architourism
- Multitasking memorials.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-7631-5
- OCLC:
- 897814671
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