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Author Dubin, Steven C.

Title Displays of power : memory and amnesia in the American museum / Steven C. Dubin.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [1999]
©1999

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  069.5 D814D    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: museums as contested sites -- Crossing 125th Street: Harlem on my mind revisited -- "The troubles" in the New World: the uncivil war over Gaelic Gotham -- War of the words: psychoanalysis and its discontents -- A matter of perspective: revisionist history and The West as America -- Battle royal: the final mission of the Enola Gay -- The postmodern exhibition: cut on the bias, or is Enola Gay a verb?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-282) and index.
Subject Museum exhibits -- Political aspects -- United States.
Museum techniques -- United States.
Culture conflict -- United States.
Popular culture -- Political aspects.
Political correctness.
United States -- Cultural policy.
ISBN 0814718892 (acid-free paper)
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