Tracing Topographies: Revisiting the Concentration Camps Seventy Years After the Liberation of Auschwitz

ISBN-13: 9780367220167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 184 str.

Joanne Pettitt; Vered Weiss

Opis

Seventy years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, this book traces the relationship between Nazi-occupied spaces and Holocaust memory, considering the multitude of ways in which the passing of time impacts upon, or shapes, cultural constructions of space.

Spis treści

Introduction  Section one: geographies of the Holocaust  1. Life in space, space in life: Nazi topographies, geographical imaginations, and Lebensraum  2. Controversies surrounding the excavation at Börneplatz, Frankfurt am Main, 1987  Section two: remembering and experiencing the concentration camps in the present day  3. "Romantic Auschwitz": examples and perceptions of contemporary visitor photography at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum  4. The concentration camp brothels in memory  5. The sacred, the profane, and the space in between: site-specific performance at Auschwitz  Section three: filmic topographies  6. The cinematic city and the destruction of Lublin’s Jews  7. Transcultural engagement with Polish memory of the Holocaust while watching Leszek Wosiewicz’s Kornblumenblau  Section four: literary topographies  8. Post-witnessing the concentration camps: Paul Auster’s and Angela Morgan Cutler’s investigative and imaginative encounters with sites of mass murder  9. Extra-territorial places in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz  10. British representations of the camps  Afterword

O autorze

Joanne Pettitt is based in the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Vered Weiss is a post-doc working in the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.