David B MacDonald

Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide

The Holocaust and Historical Representation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how the Holocaust has impacted on ethnic and social groups, asking whether the Holocaust is a useful or destructive means of reading non-Jewish history. This book explains the rise of the Holocaust as a process, charting how its importance as a symbol has evolved. It is useful for students and researchers of the Holocaust and genocide.

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In an era of globalization and identity politics, this book explores how Holocaust imagery and vocabulary have been appropriated and applied to other genocides.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 164mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780415430616
• ISBN-10: 0415430615
• Artikelnr.: 23592960

Autorenporträt

David B. MacDonald is Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Holocaust and Identity Politics 1. Cosmopolitanizing the
Holocaust: From the Eichmann Trial to Identity Politics 2. Considering
Holocaust Uniqueness: From Hebrew Peoplehood to the Americanization of
Memory 3. Colonialism, Genocide, and Indigenous Rights: America, Australia,
and New Zealand 4. Uncle Sam's Willing Executioners? Indigenous Genocide
and Representation in the United States 5. Australia: Aboriginal Genocide
and the Holocaust 6. Indigenous History Through the Prism of the Holocaust:
New Zealand Maori 7. The Armenian Genocide: The Politics of Recognition and
Denial 8. The Armenian Genocide and Contemporary Holocaust Scholarship 9.
Nanking, the Chinese Holocaust, and Japanese Atomic Victim Exceptionalism
10. Serbs, Croats, and the Dismemberment of Yugoslavia: War and Genocide in
the Twentieth Century 11. Serbophobia and Victimhood: Serbia and the
Successor Wars in Yugoslavia. Conclusions