1st Edition
Rhetorics of Repair in Museums of Conscience The Work of Civic Healing
By M. Elizabeth Weiser
Copyright 2027
176 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book reconceptualizes Kenneth Burke’s comic frame as a critical method for analyzing how publics can be invited into difficult, unresolved conversations about collective history, identity, and justice.
Drawing on fieldwork across twelve U.S. museums of conscience, it develops the concept of rhetorics of repair —truth-sharing, communal healing, restorative justice, and disciplined hope—as... Read more
Introduction: Why Museums? Why Repair? 1. Repair in the Comic Frame; 2. First Lesson: Share the Truth; 3. Second Lesson: Heal Communities; 4. Third Lesson: Reckon with Justice; 5. Fourth Lesson: Celebrate Hope; Conclusion: Repair the “We”; Index
Biography
M. Elizabeth Weiser is Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, USA.
