Museums, narratives, and critical histories : narrating the past for the present and future /
"In response to systemic racism and institutions' implications in histories of colonialism, nationalism, and exclusion, museum curators have embraced new ways of storytelling to face entangled memories and histories. Critical museum practices have consciously sought to unsettle established...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2024]
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| Series: | Museums and narrative,
volume 1 |
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Table of Contents:
- Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories / Kerstin Barndt and Stephan Jaeger
- "Feeling Truth": Objects, Embodiment, and Temporality in the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington, DC) and the Legacy Museum (Montgomery, Alabama) / Amy Sodaro
- Reading Museum Narratives: A Narratological Approach to the Holocaust Exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Trondheim and the Oslo Jewish Museum / Ingvild Hagen Kjørholt
- The Telling of Many Stories: Multivocality and Pluritemporality in Berlin Global at the Humboldt Forum / Daniel Morat
- Museum Objects as Clues in Fictional Detective Stories: Story-led Art Exhibitions Helsinki Noir: A Crime to Solve and Before the Night: Tornio Noir as Case Studies / Sanna-Mari Niemi
- Narrating Grief: The Storytelling Strategy and its Immersive Potential in Pia Says Goodbye (Dortmund) / Jana Hawig
- Sounds, Narrative, and Emotions in Historical Exhibitions: The Case of the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising in Banská Bystrica / Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková
- Acts of Rupture and Repair: Staging Post-Critical Re-Readings of Colonial Histories in V&A Dundee through Contemporary Art / Emma Bond
- Beyond the De-Colonial: Rethinking the Future of Museums in Africa / Farai Mudododzi Chabata and Jesmael Mataga
- Baring our Teeth: Narratives of Colonial Conflict at the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira / Rowan Light
- The Art of Decolonizing the Museum: Implementing Sámi Ontology and Storytelling at the Sámi Museum in Karasjok through Sámi Artwork / Anne Schäfer
- Revisiting Grand Narratives at the National Museum of Colombia: Striving for Inclusion and Diversity / Jimena Perry
- Celebrating Bad Times: The Epideictic Work of Museums of Racial Trauma / M. Elizabeth Weiser
- Narrative Spaces of Conflict and Social Repair: The Conflictorium and Museum of Conflict (Ahmedabad) / Mark W. Rectanus
- Clandestine Captivity, Testimony, and Construction of Truth in a Memory Site: Narrative Strategies and Memory Work at the ESMA Site Museum's Permanent Exhibition (Buenos Aires) / Florencia Larralde Armas and Julieta Lampason
- Finding Meaning in Tragedy: A Critical Reflection of Audience Engagement at the Salem Witch Museum / Rachel Christ-Doane
- "Use Me, When Needed Again": Performing Heritage at Monuments of the Yugoslav Era / Marija Đorđević and Stefan Krankenhagen
- Uncementing Narratives: Memorial Architecture as a Way to Support Intergenerational Remembrance and Contest Dominant Memory Politics in Sarajevo / Selma Ćatović Hughes, Ena Kukić and Sabina Tanović
- Narrative and Resilience: Museum Exhibitions under Forced Change-A Case Study of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk / Maria Kobielska.