Bibliograph

Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Irit Dekel

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Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Irit Dekel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

834978389

Responsibility statement

Irit Dekel

Series statement

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies

Summary

"Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin offers a novel approach to the memorial and its study through the focus on performances. Based on extensive ethnographic research, and drawing on dramaturgic theory, memory studies and theories of the public sphere, the book offers a fresh theorization of memorial experience by analyzing interaction between guides, memorial workers and visitors. Moving away from models of postmemory and post trauma approaches, the book recognizes the precariousness and variation of memory work done at the memorial through the ways visitors engages with the act of remembrance rather than with its object, namely the history of Jewish persecution and the Holocaust. This engagement explores how visitors present and perform their 'moral career' at the site, whose codes have been shaped by knowledge about and visits in this and other sites of Holocaust remembrance".--, Provided by publisher

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