Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era

Herausgegeben:Schult, Tanja; Popescu, Diana I.

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores post-2000s artistic engagements with Holocaust memory arguing that imagination plays an increasingly important role in keeping the memory of the Holocaust vivid for contemporary and future audiences.

Produktdetails

• The Holocaust and its Contexts
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-53041-7
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 309
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781137530417
• ISBN-10: 1137530413
• Artikelnr.: 42402787

Autorenporträt

Ernst van Alphen, Leiden University, Netherlands Jacob Lund, Aarhus University, Denmark James E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Imke Girßmann, University of Oldenburg, Germany Tracy Jean Rosenberg, Goethe University, Germany Tim Cole, University of Bristol, UK Jan Borowicz, University of Warsaw, Poland Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Canada Magdalena Waligórska, Free University, Berlin, Germany Ceri Eldin, Uppsala University, Sweden Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Uppsala University, Sweden Elizabeth Ward, University of Leeds, UK Ingrid Lewis, Dublin City University, Ireland Christine Gundermann, University of Cologne, Germany Christian Karner, University of Nottingham, UK Kristin Wagrell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Larissa Allwork, University of Northampton, UK

Inhaltsangabe

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 (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