Objects of Memory

History and Narrative in French War Museums

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8940671
AutoresDaniel J Sherman (autor correspondente)
Ano1995
Volume19
Fascículo1
Páginas49-49
Data de publicação1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFrench Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/286899
OpenAlexW2320043896
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23

Epitomizing the obsession with the past that is characteristic of postmodern culture, the museum in the broadest sense occupies a central place in current debates about history and memory. In its own original configuration the museum displayed history as, in the words of Eugenio Donato, eternally present spectacle. ' In this sense it is an artifact of the age of Pierre Nora's memory-history, in which history devoted itself to asserting the identity of a nation's memory with its character. Today, in Nora's view, critical his term for the scholarly production of the last half century, seeks to destroy true memory by confining it to sites or lieux de memoire. Museums, like history, emphasize not continuity but discontinuity

Art · Literature · Narrative · Narrative history · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Museums and Cultural Heritage