Revisiting Holocaust representation in the post-witnessing era
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Revisiting Holocaust representation in the post-witnessing era
(The Holocaust and its contexts)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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On cover, spine: Edited by Diana I. Popescu and Tanja Schult
Includes bibliographies and index
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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.
Table of Contents
- 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 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 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
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