Memory and Genocide

On What Remains and the Possibility of Representation

Fazil Moradi, Ralph Buchenhorst, Maria Six-Hohenbalken (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-8201-3 (ISBN)

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This book focusses on the ethical, the aesthetic and scholarly dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary and feature films, literary works, museums, music, and law translate and are translated as representative of real acts of genocide – as mediating processes materialized in the aftermath.

This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films, poetry and performance, museums and monuments, music, dance, image, law, memory narratives, spiritual bonds, and ruins are translated and take place as translations of acts of genocide. It shows how genocide-related modes of representation are acts of translation which displace and produce memory and acts of remembrance of genocidal violence as inheritance of the past in a future present. Thus, the possibility of representation is examined in light of what remains in the aftermath where the past and the future are inseparable companions and we find the idea of the untranslatability in acts of genocide. By opening up both the past and lived experiences of genocidal violence as and through multiple acts of translation, this volume marks a heterogeneous turn towards the future, and one which will be of interest to all scholars and students of memory and genocide studies, transitional justice, sociology, psychology, and social anthropology.

Fazil Moradi is finalizing his PhD thesis at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and the University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Ralph Buchenhorst is a Senior Researcher at Halle University. He received his PhD from the University of Vienna and his habilitation from the University of Potsdam in Germany. Buchenhorst has been a DAAD Guest Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (2002–2006) and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2013). Maria Six-Hohenbalken is a Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Lecturer at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.

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Notes on Contributors

Preface, by Günther Schlee

Introduction: The Past in Translation

Fazil Moradi, Maria Six-Hohenbalken, Ralph Buchenhorst

Intimate Interrogations: The Literary Grammar of Communal Violence
Christi Merill

Oral Performers and Memory of Mass Violence: Dynamics of Collective and Individual Remembering
Laury Ocen

Parallel Readings: Narratives of Violence
Éva Kovács

Genocide in Translation: On Memory, Remembrance, and Politics of the Future
Fazil Moradi

Remembering the Poison Gas Attack on Halabja: Questions of Representations in the Emergence of Memory on Genocide
Maria Six-Hohenbalken

Afterlives of Genocide: Return of Human Bodies from Berlin to Windhoek, 2011
Memory Biwa

Communicating the Unthinkable: A Psychodynamic Perspective
Ivana Maček

Between Nakba, Shoah and Apartheid: Notes on a Film from the Interstices
Heidi Grunebaum

The Rethinking of Remembering: Who Lays Claim to Speech in the Wake of Catastrophe?
Rachmi Diyah Larasati

Field, Forum, and Vilified Art: Recent Developments in the Representation of Mass Violence and its Remembrance
Ralph Buchenhorst

Afterword: Wonder Woman, the Gutter, and Critical Genocide Studies

Alexander Laban Hinton

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Memory Studies: Global Constellations
Zusatzinfo	4 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4724-8201-8 / 1472482018
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-8201-3 / 9781472482013
Zustand	Neuware