Affective Heritage and the Politics of Memory after 9/11: Curating Trauma at the Memorial Museum Micieli-Voutsinas Jacque
Affective Heritage and the Politics of Memory after 9/11: Curating Trauma at the Memorial Museum Micieli-Voutsinas Jacque This book critically examines the institutional curation of traumatic memory…
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Affective Heritage and the Politics of Memory after 9/11: Curating Trauma at the Memorial Museum Micieli-Voutsinas Jacque
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. 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? 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.
What does the National September 11 Memorial & Museum Who is the cultural institution's primary audience-the imagined community it reconstructs this traumatic history and safeguards its memories for?