La représentation muséale des génocides

A comparison of how trauma has been represented in Jewish and Holocaust museums since the Second World War and the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, 2004, highlighting the possibilities and limits of museums when representing the history of genocides in countries where victims and their descendants continue to live alongside perpetrators and their heirs. The power and the desire to represent oneself on the museal platform are examined, followed by a discussion of concepts associated with trauma [self-healing, zakhor (remembrance), tikkun olam (repairing the world), temporal considerations, survival, and resilience] in the context of museological representations.