Revisiting Holocaust representation in the post-witnessing era /
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| Author / Creator: | Popescu, Diana, author. |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. |
| Description: | xiii, 309 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Holocaust and its contexts Holocaust and its contexts. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10354943 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. Introduction: Memory and Imagination in the Post-Witness Era
- Part I. Revisiting Artistic Practices of Holocaust Commemoration
- 2. List Mania in Holocaust Commemoration
- 3. Acts of Remembering in the Work of Esther Shalev-Gerz - From Embodied to Mediated Memory
- 4. Countermonuments as Spaces for Deep Memory
- 5. Sites that Matter: Current Developments of Urban Holocaust Commemoration in Berlin and Munich
- 6. Contemporary Holocaust Memorials in Berlin: On the Borders of the Sacred and the Profane
- Part II. Sites of Straggle with Haunting Pasts
- 7. Holocaust Tourism: The Strange yet Familiar/the Familiar yet Strange
- 8. To Go or Not to Go? Reflections on the Iconic Status of Auschwitz, its Increasing Distance and Prevailing Urgency
- 9. Holocaust Zombies: Mourning and Memory in Polish Contemporary Culture
- 10. 'A Picnic Underpinned with Unease': Spring in Warsaw and New Genre Polish-Jewish Memory Work
- 11. The Limits of Forgiveness and Postmodern Art
- 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
- 13. Questions of Re(Presentation) in Uwe Boll's Auschwitz (2011)
- 14. 'Ordinary Women' as Perpetrators in European Holocaust Films
- 15. Real Imagination? Holocaust Comics in Europe
- 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
- 17. Cosmopolitan Memory in a National Context: The Case of the 'Living History Forum'
- 18. Holocaust Remembrance as 'Civil Religion': The Case of the Stockholm Declaration (2000)
- Index