Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation

ISBN-13: 9780415430616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 274 str.

Assoc David B. MacDonald;MacDonald David

Opis

Examines how the Holocaust has impacted on ethnic and social groups, asking whether the Holocaust is a useful or destructive means of reading non-Jewish history. This book explains the rise of the Holocaust as a process, charting how its importance as a symbol has evolved. It is useful for students and researchers of the Holocaust and genocide.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Holocaust and Identity Politics  1. Cosmopolitanizing the Holocaust: From the Eichmann Trial to Identity Politics  2. Considering Holocaust Uniqueness: From Hebrew Peoplehood to the Americanization of Memory  3. Colonialism, Genocide, and Indigenous Rights: America, Australia, and New Zealand  4. Uncle Sam’s Willing Executioners? Indigenous Genocide and Representation in the United States  5. Australia: Aboriginal Genocide and the Holocaust  6. Indigenous History Through the Prism of the Holocaust: New Zealand Maori  7. The Armenian Genocide: The Politics of Recognition and Denial  8. The Armenian Genocide and Contemporary Holocaust Scholarship  9. Nanking, the Chinese Holocaust, and Japanese Atomic Victim Exceptionalism  10. Serbs, Croats, and the Dismemberment of Yugoslavia: War and Genocide in the Twentieth Century  11. Serbophobia and Victimhood: Serbia and the Successor Wars in Yugoslavia.  Conclusions

O autorze

David B. MacDonald is Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.