Popescu, Diana I.
Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era
1. Introduction: Memory and Imagination in the Post-Witness Era
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 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 the Sacred and the 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’:
Erica Lehrer, 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
Elizabeth M. 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
Keywords: History, European History, History of Military, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Jewish Cultural Studies
- Author(s)
- Popescu, Diana I.
- Schult, Tanja
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2015
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- The Holocaust and its Contexts
- Page amount
- 322 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137530424
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-57146-8