Nothing Happened: Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide (Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures)
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Hardcover. A close look at Charlotte Salomon's fantastical autobiography "Life? or Theater?" and the way that German social history has omitted the stories of German Jewish women and suicide Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures. Num Pages: 412 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; AGB; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSR1; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 794.
Charlotte Salomon's (1917-43) fantastical autobiography, Life? or Theater?, consists of 769 sequenced gouache paintings, through which the artist imagined the circumstances of the eight suicides in her family, all but one of them women. But Salomon's focus on suicide was not merely a familial idiosyncrasy. Nothing Happened argues that the social history of early-twentieth-century Germany has elided an important cultural and social phenomenon by not including the story of German Jewish women and suicide. This absence in social history mirrors an even larger gap in the intellectual history of deeply gendered suicide studies that have reproduced the notion of women's ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures
Number of Pages
412
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472118557
SKU
V9780472118557
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Darcy C. Buerkle is Associate Professor of History at Smith College. In 2011–12 she held the Walter Benjamin Chair in German Jewish History and Culture at Humboldt University–Berlin.
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