Rhetorics of Repair in Museums of Conscience

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 12 U.S. museums of conscience, it develops the concept of rhetorics of repair - truth-sharing, communal healing, restorative justice, and disciplined hope - as patter...