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Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice
Jessica Rapson
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Description for Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice
Paperback. Examining the Holocaust in literature, landscape and memory, this book examines three sites of murder by the Nazis: Buchenwald, Germany; Babi Yar, Ukraine; and Lidice, Czech Republic. Num Pages: 242 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; AMGD; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of monument fatigue , a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of murder by the Nazis: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. Bringing together recent scholarship from cultural memory and cultural geography, the author focuses on the way these violent histories are remembered, allowing these sites to emerge as dynamic ... Read more
Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of monument fatigue , a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of murder by the Nazis: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. Bringing together recent scholarship from cultural memory and cultural geography, the author focuses on the way these violent histories are remembered, allowing these sites to emerge as dynamic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785335112
SKU
V9781785335112
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99-15
About Jessica Rapson
Jessica Rapson is a Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London. She is co-editor, with Lucy Bond, of The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders (de Gruyter 2014).
Reviews for Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice
Jessica Rapson has written a fascinating book... that can be immensely inspiring. One may not agree with her all the time, but this makes her discourse contribution even more valuable.
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