Topographies of Suffering

Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice

AvJessica Rapson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of "monument fatigue," a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of murder by the Nazis: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. The author balances scrutiny with a focus on the way these violent histories are remembered, allowing these sites to emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes of encounter in which difficult pasts can be represented and comprehended in the present.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-08-01
Mått:157 x 231 x 20 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:242
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781782387091

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Jessica Rapson is a Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London. She is co-editor, with Lucy Bond, of The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders (de Gruyter 2014).

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"This book marks a clear interdisciplinary innovation and a new engagement with ... debates over memory ... it makes controversial and important new arguments and - its strength - examines the details through its very well-chosen and well balanced case studies." * Robert Eaglestone, University of London "... An interesting and original work, which ... prompts us to reflect on memories as dynamic elements and presents the past as a challenging arena always in connection with the present." * Alexandre Dessingue, University of Stavanger

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List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: BUCHENWALD Chapter 1. Defining and Redefining Buchenwald Chapter 2. Semprun's Buchenwald Chapter 3. Buchenwald to New Orleans PART II: BABI YAR Chapter 4. Marginalized Memories Chapter 5. Babi Yar's Literary Journey Chapter 6. Kiev to Denver PART III: LIDICE Chapter 7. Between the Past and the Future Chapter 8. Lidice Travels Chapter 9. Twinning Lidice Conclusion: Travelling to Remember Bibliography Index