The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum : From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality / Stephan Jaeger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaeger, Stephan, Author.

Contributor:

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Series:

Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und Kulturelle Erinnerung

Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust Representation.

Second World War Memory.

Second World War Museum.

Transnational Memory.

Local Subjects:

Holocaust Representation.

Second World War Memory.

Second World War Museum.

Transnational Memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 354 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Stephan Jaeger, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

Summary:

The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It analyzes twelve permanent exhibitions in Europe and North America - including the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, the House of European History in Brussels, the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester, and the National WWII Museum in New Orleans - in order to show how museums reflect and shape cultural memory, as well as their cognitive, ethical, emotional, and aesthetic potential and effects. This includes a discussion of representations of events such as the Holocaust and air warfare. In relation to narrative, memory, and experience, the study develops the concept of experientiality (on a sliding scale between mimetic and structural forms), which provides a new textual-spatial method for reading exhibitions and understanding the experiences of historical individuals and collectives. It is supplemented by concepts like transnational memory, empathy, and encouraging critical thinking through difficult knowledge.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Prologue

Chapter 1: The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum

Chapter 2: The Medium of the Museum

Chapter 3: Restricted Experientiality

Chapter 4: Primary Experientiality

Chapter 5: Secondary Experientiality

Chapter 6: The Transnational

Chapter 7: The Holocaust and Perpetration in War Museums

Chapter 8: Total War, Air War, and Suffering

Chapter 9: Art in Second World War Museums

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

3-11-066133-0

3-11-066441-0

OCLC:

1149530576

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access