Concentrationary Memories: Totalitarian Terror and Cultural Resistance

ISBN-13: 9781780768960 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 336 str.

UK) Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds; UK) Max Silverman (University of Leeds

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Concentrationary Memories is based in the idea that the concentrationary plague unleashed on the world by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s has remained and is now a permanent presence shadowing modern life. It also argues that memory - and, indeed, art in general - must be invoked to show this haunting of the present by this menacing past so that we can read for the signs of terror and counter its deformation of the human.

The book presents political and cultural readings of film, art, photographic and literary practices, which analyses different cultural responses to concentrationary terror in the post-war period, ranging from Auschwitz to Argentina. Using multiple images, contributors including Nicholas Chare, Isabelle de le Court, Thomas Elsaesser, Benjamin Hannavy-Cousen, Claire Launchbury, Sylvie Lindeperg, Laura Malosetti Costa, Griselda Pollock, Annette Wiewiorka, and John Wolfe Akerman show how those involved in the cultural production of memories of the horror of totalitarianism sought to find forms, languages and image systems that could make sense of and resist the post-war condition in which, as Hannah Arendt famously stated, 'everything is possible' and 'human beings as human beings become superfluous'.

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Concentrationary Memories Series Preface Griselda Pollock & Max Silverman Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Politics of Memory: From Concentrationary Memory to Concentrationary Memories Griselda Pollock & Max Silverman: Part 1: Theorising the Political Space and Beyond Chapter 1 The Memory of Politics: Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt and the Possibility of Encounter John Wolfe Ackerman Part 2: Mediations of Memory Chapter 2 Migration and Motif: the (Parapractic) Memories of an Image Thomas Elsaesser Chapter 3 The Two Stages of the Eichmann Trial Sylvie Lindeperg & Annette Wieviorka Chapter 4 Brushing the Film Against the Grain: Locating Jean Cayrol’s Lazarean Figure in Alain Resnais’s Muriel ou le temps d’un retour Matthew John Part 3: Camp Visions Chapter 5 Symbol Re-formation: Concentrationary Memory in Charlotte Delbo’s Auschwitz and After Nicholas Chare Chapter 6 A New Visual Structure for the Unthinkable: The Surrealist Aesthetic and the Concentrationary Sublime in Lee Miller’s Photographs of Buchenwald and Dachau Isabelle de le Court Chapter 7 Muselmann: a distilled image of the Lager? Glenn Sujo Chapter 8 Nameless before the Concentrationary Void: Charlotte Salomon’s Leben? oder Theater? 1941–42 after Gurs Griselda Pollock Part 4: Beyond the Limits Chapter 9 Animated Memory: Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir Claire Launchbury Chapter 10 Isn’t this where…? Projections on Pink Floyd The Wall: Tracing the Concentrationary Image Benjamin Hannavy Cousen Chapter 11 Memory Work in Argentina 1976-2006 Laura Malosetti Costa Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index