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- Title
Collecting the Gaze: Memory, Agency, and Kinship in the Women's Jail Museum, Johannesburg.
- Authors
McAlister, JoanFaber
- Abstract
This article draws on Walter Benjamin's insights about collecting to consider how the curatorial approach in the Women's Jail museum figures former inmates as collectors who haunt a scene of memory that productively mediates the gaze. In compelling viewers to see how particular women recollect incarceration, this place of diverse and distinct memories invites a new mode of connection with visitors—kinship—that avoids problems associated with both identification and affect in museum exhibits.
- Subjects
REFORMATORIES for women; MUSEUMS; BENJAMIN, Walter, 1892-1940; GAZE; KINSHIP
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 2013, Vol 36, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.2012.754389