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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Americanization of the Holocaust. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607117160 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hilene Flanzbaum |
ISBN: | 0801860210 9780801860218 0801860229 9780801860225 |
OCLC Number: | 39556729 |
Description: | 261 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The imaginary Jew and the American poet / Hilene Flanzbaum -- Aliens in the wasteland : American encounters with the Holocaust on 1960s science fiction television / Jeffrey Shandler -- Imagining survivors : testimony and the rise of Holocaust consciousness / Henry Greenspan -- America's Holocaust : memory and the politics of identity / James E. Young -- Inheriting the Holocaust : Jewish American fiction and the double bind of the second-generation survivor / Andrew Furman -- Surviving Rego Park : Holocaust theory from Art Spiegelman to Berel Lang / Amy Hungerford -- "Three thousand miles away" : the Holocaust in recent works for the American theater / Joyce Antler -- The cinematic triangulation of Jewish American identity : Israel, America, and the Holocaust / Sara R. Horowitz -- Reflections on the Holocaust from Nebraska / Alan E. Steinweis -- "You who never was there" : slavery and the new historicism- deconstruction and the Holocaust / Walter Benn Michaels -- Suffering as a moral beacon : Blacks and Jews / Laurence Mordekhai Thomas -- Play will make you free : reprising The triumph of the will in Chicago's Nike town / Andrew Levy. |
Responsibility: | edited by Hilene Flanzbaum. |
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Abstract:
A collection of essays presenting America's cultural appropriation of the Holocaust, and examining how much of our knowledge of it comes to us through cultural filters. The authors discuss a range of examples, from "Schindler's List" to idealizations of Anne Frank.
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Hilene Flanzbaum accepts with a refreshing lack of dogma the notion that 'the imprint of a multicultural but predominantly Gentile America' will inevitably flatten-but also broaden-American Holocaust consciousness. Salon Delineates very well how much the perception of Holocaust survivors (and their descendants) and of Holocaust literature (in the broadest sense) have changed over the last forty years. -- Marion Spies Religion and the Arts Read more...
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