Curriculum and the Holocaust: Competing Sites of Memory and Representation (Studies in Curriculum Theory Series)
Marla Morris
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hardcover. This study uses the Holocaust to raise issues of memory and representation. Marla Morris argues that history is the systematization of memory and examines the way that the Holocaust is represented in historical texts and in novels. Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJD; HBTZ1; JNKC; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 572.
In this book, Morris explores the intersection of curriculum studies, Holocaust studies, and psychoanalysis, using the Holocaust to raise issues of memory and representation. Arguing that memory is the larger category under which history is subsumed, she examines the ways in which the Holocaust is represented in texts written by historians and by novelists. For both, psychological transference, repression, denial, projection, and reversal contribute heavily to shaping personal memories, and may therefore determine the ways in which they construct the past. The way the Holocaust is represented in curricula is the way it is remembered. Interrogations of this memory are ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Routledge United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780805838121
SKU
V9780805838121
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Reviews for Curriculum and the Holocaust: Competing Sites of Memory and Representation (Studies in Curriculum Theory Series)
"A remarkable achievement....The question of the Holocaust and its representation is important to our work in curriculum....Refusing to treat the Holocaust as metaphor, Marla Morris nevertheless uses the Holocaust to raise issues of memory and representation....She explores the issues from a variety of discipline perspectives
psychoanalysis, history, literature
and the breadth of her sources is wide....Morris deals with the issue perceptively and ... Read more
psychoanalysis, history, literature
and the breadth of her sources is wide....Morris deals with the issue perceptively and ... Read more