The Historical Uncanny : Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory / Susanne C. Knittel.
2014
D804.5.H35
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The Historical Uncanny : Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory / Susanne C. Knittel.
Author
Knittel, Susanne C., author.
ISBN
9780823262809
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (364 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823262809 doi
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D804.5.H35
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.53/18
Summary
The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical memories that discomfit a public's self-understanding, this book proposes the historical uncanny as that which resists reification precisely because it cannot be assimilated to dominant discourses of commemoration.Focusing on the problems of representation and reception, the book explores memorials for two marginalized aspects of Holocaust: the Nazi euthanasia program directed against the mentally ill and disabled and the Fascist persecution of Slovenes, Croats, and Jews in and around Trieste. Reading these memorials together with literary and artistic texts, Knittel redefines "sites of memory" as assemblages of cultural artifacts and discourses that accumulate over time; they emerge as a physical and a cultural space that is continually redefined, rewritten, and re-presented.In bringing perspectives from disability studies and postcolonialism to the question of memory, Knittel unsettles our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the culture of contemporary Europe.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One
1. Remembering Euthanasia: Grafeneck as Heterotopia
2. Bridging the Silence, Part I: The Disabled Enabler
3. Bridging the Silence, Part II: The Vicarious Witness
Interlude
4. Lethal Trajectories: Perpetrators from Grafeneck to the Risiera
Part Two
5. Black Holes and Revelations: The Risiera, the Foibe, and the Making of an "Italian Tragedy"
6. A Severed Branch: The Memory of Fascism on Stage and Screen
7. Bridging the Silence, Part III: Trieste and the Language of Belonging
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One
1. Remembering Euthanasia: Grafeneck as Heterotopia
2. Bridging the Silence, Part I: The Disabled Enabler
3. Bridging the Silence, Part II: The Vicarious Witness
Interlude
4. Lethal Trajectories: Perpetrators from Grafeneck to the Risiera
Part Two
5. Black Holes and Revelations: The Risiera, the Foibe, and the Making of an "Italian Tragedy"
6. A Severed Branch: The Memory of Fascism on Stage and Screen
7. Bridging the Silence, Part III: Trieste and the Language of Belonging
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index