The Historical Uncanny: Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory

By: null Susanne C. Knittel

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 364 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780823262793
Related ISBNs:: 9780823262786
Publisher:: Fordham University Press
Date of Addition:: 02/05/25
Copyrighted By:: Fordham University Press New York 2015
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.