Arlene Stein

Reluctant Witnesses

Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness

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Produktbeschreibung

Reluctant Witnesses tells the story of the rise of Holocaust consciousness in the United States from the perspective of survivors and their descendants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780190624606
• ISBN-10: 0190624604
• Artikelnr.: 47863111

Autorenporträt

Arlene Stein is Professor of Sociology at Rutgers and the author of three books about American culture and gender politics. Her previous works include The Stranger Next Door, which won the Ruth Benedict Prize, and Sex and Sensibility. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, The Forward, and Jacobin, among other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Interrupted Lives
* Chapter 2: Desperately Seeking Normality
* Chapter 3: The Children Wish to Remember What the Parents Wish to
Forget
* Chapter 4: Claiming Victimhood, Becoming Survivors
* Chapter 5: Ghosts into Ancestors
* Chapter 6: Too Much Memory? Holocaust Fatigue in the Era of the
Victim
* Appendix: Methodological notes, Interviewees
* Notes
* References
* Index