Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories: Narrating the Past for the Present and Future

Ahead of Publication Published by De Gruyter 2024

Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories

Narrating the Past for the Present and Future

Edited by: Kerstin Barndt and Stephan Jaeger

Volume 1 in the series Museums and Narrative

Overview

About this book

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 forms of representation, break with linear narratives of progress, and experiment with new modes of multivocal, multimedia, and subjective storytelling. The volume features analyses of narratives and narration in museums and heritage institutions today, as well as visions for future museum practices on a local, regional, national, transnational, and global scale. It is divided into three sections: Narrative Theory and Temporality, Ruptures and Repair, and Difficult Memories and Histories. Essays from a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences examine museum practices in history, memorial, anthropological, and art museums across six continents. They develop narratological categories, reflect on immersive and virtual narratives, challenge colonial violence and hegemonic forms of representation, query the performance of heritage, parse exhibition design, and unearth techniques to express narratives of social justice.

Author / Editor information

Stephan Jaeger, University of Manitoba, Canada; Kerstin Barndt, University of Michigan, USA.

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Museum Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Literary Studies
Pages
- Main content: 300
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Coloured Illustrations: 45

eBook

Planned Publication: March 13, 2024
ISBN: 9783110787467

Hardcover

Planned Publication: March 13, 2024
ISBN: 9783110787405