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The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust. Gender, Culture and Memory.
A. Reading
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Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JFC; JFSJ; JHMC; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This book challenges current thinking on memory by examining the complex ways in which the social inheritance of the Nazi Holocaust is gendered. It considers how the past is handed down in the US, Poland and Britain through historiography, autobiographies, documentary and feature films, memorial sites and museums. It explores the configuration of socially inherited memories about the Holocaust in young people of different cultural backgrounds. Scholarly and accessible, the book provides a groundbreaking approach to understanding the significance of gender in relation to cultural mediations of history.
This book challenges current thinking on memory by examining the complex ways in which the social inheritance of the Nazi Holocaust is gendered. It considers how the past is handed down in the US, Poland and Britain through historiography, autobiographies, documentary and feature films, memorial sites and museums. It explores the configuration of socially inherited memories about the Holocaust in young people of different cultural backgrounds. Scholarly and accessible, the book provides a groundbreaking approach to understanding the significance of gender in relation to cultural mediations of history.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349414338
SKU
V9781349414338
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99-15
About A. Reading
ANNA READING is Principal Lecturer in the Division of Arts and Media at South Bank University, London. She has published books and articles in the areas of gender, media and cultural memory. She is author of Polish Women, Solidarity and Feminism, (researched with Colin Sparks) and, Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media.
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