Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era

by Tanja Schult (Editor), Diana I. Popescu (Editor)

Overview

This volume explores post-2000s artistic engagements with Holocaust memory arguing that imagination plays an increasingly important role in keeping the memory of the Holocaust vivid for contemporary and future audiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137530417
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/29/2015
Series:	The Holocaust and its Contexts
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	309
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Memory and Imagination in the Post-witness Era; Diana I. Popescu
PART I: REVISITING ARTISTIC PRACTICES OF HOLOCAUST COMMEMORATION
2. List Mania in Holocaust Commemoration; Ernst van Alphen
3. Acts of Remembering in the Work of Esther Shalev-Gerz: From Embodied to Mediated Memory; Jacob Lund
4. Countermonuments as Spaces for Deep Memory; James E. Young
5. Sites that Matter: Current Developments of Urban Holocaust Commemoration in Berlin and Munich; Imke Girßmann
6. Contemporary Holocaust Memorials in Berlin: On the Borders of Sacred and Profane; Tracy Jean Rosenberg
PART II: SITES OF STRUGGLE WITH HAUNTING PASTS
7. Holocaust Tourism: The Strange yet Familiar/the Familiar yet Strange; Tim Cole
8. To Go or Not to Go? Reflections on the Iconic Status of Auschwitz, its Increasing Distance and Prevailing Urgency; Tanja Schult
9. Holocaust Zombies: Mourning and Memory in Polish Contemporary Culture; Jan Borowicz
10. 'A Picnic Underpinned with Unease': Spring in Warsaw and New Genre Polish-Jewish Memory Work; Erica Lehrer and Magdalena Waligórska
11. The Limits of Forgiveness and Postmodern Art; Ceri Eldin
PART III: RETHINKING REPRESENTATION IN LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE
12. Auschwitz, Adorno and the Ambivalence of Representation: The Holocaust as a Point of Reference in Contemporary Literature; Hampus Östh Gustafsson
13. Questions of Re(Presentation) in Uwe Boll's Auschwitz (2011); Elizabeth Ward
14. 'Ordinary' Women as Perpetrators in European Holocaust Films; Ingrid Lewis
15 Real Imagination? Holocaust Comics in Europe; Christine Gundermann
PART IV: MEMORY POLITICS IN POST-2000 (TRANS)NATIONAL CONTEXTS
16. Austria's Post-Holocaust Jewish Community: A Subaltern Counterpublic between the Ethics and Morality of Memory; Christian Karner
17. Cosmopolitan Memory in a National Context: The Case of the 'Living History Forum'; Kristin Wagrell
18. Holocaust Remembrance as 'Civil Religion'? The Case of the Stockholm Declaration (2000); Larissa Allwork