Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era

ISBN-13: 9781137530417 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 309 str.

Diana Popescu; Diana I. Popescu; Tanja Schult

Opis

Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era shifts focus from discussions on the ethics and limits of representation to the relevance of imagination in Holocaust commemoration. It re-examines ethical, aesthetic and political dilemmas arising from the crucial transfer of memory from the realm of 'living memory' contained by the survivors and their families, to culturally and politically mediated memory practices realised by post-witness generations. Why are artistic imaginative representations of the Holocaust important now? Critical analyses of little discussed artworks, memorials, film, comics and literature point to a diversification of approaches and Holocaust re-presentations in Europe, showing that memory and imagination are increasingly and intimately intertwined. This volume's contributions make apparent the genuine struggle among those born after the Holocaust, whether Jewish, Polish, German, Austrian, or Swedish, to make the past relevant in the present, well-aware that one cannot fully own or comprehend it.

O autorze

Ernst van Alphen, Leiden University, Netherlands Jacob Lund, Aarhus University, Denmark James E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Imke Girßmann, University of Oldenburg, Germany Tracy Jean Rosenberg, Goethe University, Germany Tim Cole, University of Bristol, UK Jan Borowicz, University of Warsaw, Poland Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Canada Magdalena Waligórska, Free University, Berlin, Germany Ceri Eldin, Uppsala University, Sweden Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Uppsala University, Sweden Elizabeth Ward, University of Leeds, UK Ingrid Lewis, Dublin City University, Ireland Christine Gundermann, University of Cologne, Germany Christian Karner, University of Nottingham, UK Kristin Wagrell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Larissa Allwork, University of Northampton, UK