Reading Memory Sites Through Signs : : Hiding into Landscape / / ed. by Cristina Demaria, Patrizia Violi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• HerausgeberIn: Demaria, Cristina,; Violi, Patrizia,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage and Memory Studies ; 23
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)

What can space tell us about our past? Which stories do memory sites narrate? Which memories do they transmit? And, more importantly, how can we read their meanings? Semiotics can provide us with a homogeneous, shareable and theoretically sound methodology to analyse space within a comparable and common frame of reference for scholars of memory studies and traumatic heritage, as well as for historians, architects and museum curators. The book describes in clear and understandable language the main semiotic concepts that can be used to analyse space, illustrating them with carefully chosen case studies of memory spaces – monuments, museums, post-war urban restoration, filmed and virtual space – in order to show the applicability and efficacy of a semiotic methodology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- For a Semiotics of Spaces of Memories -- 1. Stories that Shape Spatialities -- 2. Interpretation and Use of Memory -- 3. Uncomfortable Memories of Fascist Italy -- 4. What Does Fascist Architecture Still Have to Tell Us? -- 5. Berlin, the Jewish Museum and the Holocaust Memorial -- 6. Making Space for Memory -- 7. Ruins of War -- 8. Turning Spaces of Memory into Memoryscapes -- 9. Voices from the Past: Memories in a Digital Space -- 10. 500,000 Dirhams in Scandinavia, from Mobile Silver to Land Rent -- Index -- Index of Names