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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Diana Popescu; Tanja Schult |
ISBN: | 9781137530417 1137530413 |
OCLC Number: | 920824593 |
Description: | xiii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 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 Girfsmann -- 6. Contemporary Holocaust Memorials in Berlin: On the Borders of the Sacred and the 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 Waligorska -- 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 Osth Gustafsson -- 13. Questions of Re(Presentation) in Uwe Boll's Auschwitz (2011) / Elizabeth M. 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 Care of the 'Living History Forum' / Kristin Wagrell -- 18. Holocaust Remembrance as 'Civil Religion': The Case of the Stockholm Declaration (2000) / Larissa Allwork -- Index |
Series Title: | Holocaust and its contexts. |
Responsibility: | Diana I. Popescu (Birkbeck, Universit of London, UK) and Tanja Schult (Stockholm University, Sweden). |
Abstract:
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.
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