Revisiting Holocaust representation in the Post-Witness Era. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Diana I. Popescu and Tanja Schult.
• Editors: Popescu, Diana; Schult, Tanja
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Memory and Imagination in the Post-witness Era; Diana I. Popescu; PART I: REVISITING ARTISTIC PRACTICES OF HOLOCAUST COMMEMORATION; 2. List Mania in Holocaust Commemoration; Ernst van Alphen; 3. Acts of Remembering in the Work of Esther Shalev-Gerz: From Embodied to Mediated Memory; Jacob Lund; 4. Countermonuments as Spaces for Deep Memory; James E. Young; 5. Sites that Matter: Current Developments of Urban Holocaust Commemoration in Berlin and Munich; Imke Girßmann; 6. Contemporary Holocaust Memorials in Berlin: On the Borders of Sacred and Profane; Tracy Jean Rosenberg; PART II: SITES OF STRUGGLE WITH HAUNTING PASTS; 7. Holocaust Tourism: The Strange yet Familiar/the Familiar yet Strange; Tim Cole; 8. To Go or Not to Go? Reflections on the Iconic Status of Auschwitz, its Increasing Distance and Prevailing Urgency; Tanja Schult; 9. Holocaust Zombies: Mourning and Memory in Polish Contemporary Culture; Jan Borowicz; 10. 'A Picnic Underpinned with Unease': Spring in Warsaw and New Genre Polish-Jewish Memory Work; Erica Lehrer and Magdalena Waligórska; 11. The Limits of Forgiveness and Postmodern Art; Ceri Eldin; PART III: RETHINKING REPRESENTATION IN LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE; 12. Auschwitz, Adorno and the Ambivalence of Representation: The Holocaust as a Point of Reference in Contemporary Literature; Hampus Östh Gustafsson; 13. Questions of Re(Presentation) in Uwe Boll's <span style="font-style:italic;" >Auschwitz (2011); Elizabeth Ward; 14. 'Ordinary' Women as Perpetrators in European Holocaust Films; Ingrid Lewis; 15 Real Imagination? Holocaust Comics in Europe; Christine Gundermann; PART IV: MEMORY POLITICS IN POST-2000 (TRANS)NATIONAL CONTEXTS; 16. Austria's Post-Holocaust Jewish Community: A Subaltern Counterpublic between the Ethics and Morality of Memory; Christian Karner; 17. Cosmopolitan Memory in a National Context: The Case of the 'Living History Forum'; Kristin Wagrell; 18. Holocaust Remembrance as 'Civil Religion'? The Case of the Stockholm Declaration (2000); Larissa Allwork;
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 940.5318; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects; Holocaust memorials -- Social aspects; Memory -- Social aspects; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Jewish; Holocaust; Genocide & ethnic cleansing
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137530431
• Related ISBNs: 113753043X; 9781137530417
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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