Mediating memory through materiality: trauma iconography of flight and expulsion in the 21st-century museum

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dc.contributor.authorMikuska-Tinman, Emma
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeHeberger, Alexandra (German and Slavic Studies)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeMuller, Adam (English, Theatre, Film & Media)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorJaeger, Stephan (German and Slavic Studies)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-26T21:21:57Z
dc.date.available2018-11-26T21:21:57Z
dc.date.issued2018-11-01en_US
dc.date.submitted2018-11-02T18:31:55Zen
dc.degree.disciplineGerman and Slavic Studiesen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines how German and Polish museums employ the social meanings rooted in flight and expulsion visual trauma iconography in their individual narrative, experiential, and spatial structures through the process of Inszenierung (staging). It does so to better understand the ways in which these museums interact with and intervene in national and transnational memory discourses surrounding flight and expulsion. The Landesmuseen and travelling exhibitions under analysis work towards the construction of an ethno-regional diasporic identity for the expellee community, rooted in nostalgia and collective victimhood. Trauma iconography is used to underscore flight and expulsion as the ultimate historical cataclysm. The national and transnational museums under examination only nominally include flight and expulsion in their overall structures. Despite this, they interrupt or reinterpret the previously culturalized content of these trauma icons in order to create cognitive dissonance between the visitor and more traditional mnemonic patterns of flight and expulsion.en_US
dc.description.noteFebruary 2019en_US
dc.identifier.citationMLAen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/33568
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectGermanyen_US
dc.subjectPolanden_US
dc.subjectFlighten_US
dc.subjectExpulsionen_US
dc.subjectMuseumen_US
dc.subjectMemoryen_US
dc.subjectCultural Memoryen_US
dc.subjectSecond World Waren_US
dc.subject21st-Centuryen_US
dc.subjectMuseum of the Second World Gdansken_US
dc.subjectGerman-Russian Musuem Berlin-Karlshorsten_US
dc.subjectCenter Against Expulsionsen_US
dc.subjectFederation of Expelleesen_US
dc.titleMediating memory through materiality: trauma iconography of flight and expulsion in the 21st-century museumen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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