REFLECTION ON COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE MUSEUM
Keywords:
museum, Holocaust, visitors, comments, discourse
Abstract
The article describes visitors’ interpretation and understanding of the narrative about the Holocaust in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Visitors comments were the material for the analysis, used methodology was discourse analysis. Different discourses were singled out in visitors’ comments. Differences between visitors’ comments given in different years were ascertained. Age differences and differences among narratives of various groups of the Museum visitors were shown. It can be concluded that the Museum fulfills various functions. Besides being a place of commemoration, it accomplishes its educational function and serves as a source of information about the Holocaust.
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Bar-On D. (1995). Fear and hope: Three generations of the Holocaust. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Black G. (2011). Museums, Memory and History. Cultural and Social history. 8(3), 415-427. DOI: 10.2752/147800411X13026260433275
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Bozoglu G. (2019). Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture: The Politics of the Past in Turkey. London and New York: Routledge.
Gee J. P. (2014). An introduction to discourse analysis. London and New York: Routledge.
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Sodaro A. (2018). Exhibiting atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence. New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press. DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt1v2xskk
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2020-11-18
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Іванова, О. Ф. (2020). REFLECTION ON COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE MUSEUM. The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series Psychology, (68), 37-42. https://doi.org/10.26565/2225-7756-2020-68-05
