Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires: Balancing Memory, Architecture, and Tourism

by Brigitte Sion

This book examines the conflicting performances that take place at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Memorial to the Victims of State Terror in Buenos Aires. Sion offers an interdisciplinary model for analyzing sites of memory, their purpose, failure and success, and their part in a transnational circuit of remembrance practices.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739176307
• ISBN13: 9780739176306
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"