Surreal Geographies
A New History of Holocaust Consciousness
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2024
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-34600-3 (ISBN)
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-34600-3 (ISBN)
Recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced from the immediate postwar period up to the present, Brackney investigates changing portrayals of Jewish victims and survivors. In so doing, she demonstrates that the Holocaust has also been understood through a surreal mode of meaning making.
Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced from the immediate postwar period up to the present moment, Kathryn L. Brackney investigates changing portrayals of Jewish victims and survivors. In so doing, she demonstrates that the Holocaust has been understood not only through the documentary realism and postmodern fragmentation familiar to scholars but also through a surreal mode of meaning making. From an otherworldly “Planet Auschwitz” to the spare, intimate spaces of documentary interviews, Brackney shows that the humanity of victims has been produced, undermined, and guaranteed through evolving scripts for acknowledging and mourning mass violence.
Brackney offers a new look at familiar works by authors such as Claude Lanzmann, W. G. Sebald, and Paul Celan, while making surprising connections to contemporary scholars like Timothy Snyder and Donna Haraway, and events such as the Space Race. In the process, she maps out a multi-decade process through which transnational conventions of mourning have emerged in Western Europe, North America, and Israel, functioning to constitute Jewish victimization as “grievable life.” Ultimately, she shows how the Holocaust has developed into a figure for the destabilization and reformulation of the category of humanity and the problem of mourning across difference.
Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced from the immediate postwar period up to the present moment, Kathryn L. Brackney investigates changing portrayals of Jewish victims and survivors. In so doing, she demonstrates that the Holocaust has been understood not only through the documentary realism and postmodern fragmentation familiar to scholars but also through a surreal mode of meaning making. From an otherworldly “Planet Auschwitz” to the spare, intimate spaces of documentary interviews, Brackney shows that the humanity of victims has been produced, undermined, and guaranteed through evolving scripts for acknowledging and mourning mass violence.
Brackney offers a new look at familiar works by authors such as Claude Lanzmann, W. G. Sebald, and Paul Celan, while making surprising connections to contemporary scholars like Timothy Snyder and Donna Haraway, and events such as the Space Race. In the process, she maps out a multi-decade process through which transnational conventions of mourning have emerged in Western Europe, North America, and Israel, functioning to constitute Jewish victimization as “grievable life.” Ultimately, she shows how the Holocaust has developed into a figure for the destabilization and reformulation of the category of humanity and the problem of mourning across difference.
Kathryn L. Brackney is an assistant professor of history at Leiden University. Her research explores how aesthetic norms have developed for remembering the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Beyond Bearing Witness: Early Art and Literature of Holocaust Remembrance
Chapter 2. Remembering "Planet Auschwitz" during the Cold War
Chapter 3. Testimony and Transformation
Chapter 4. Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah: Historicizing the Limits of Representation
Chapter 5. The Holocaust in Natural History
Conclusion. New Shapes of Holocaust Memory in the Anthropocene
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas |
| Zusatzinfo | 36 b&w illus. |
| Verlagsort | Wisconsin |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-299-34600-5 / 0299346005 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-299-34600-3 / 9780299346003 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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