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Persistent Legacy: The Holocaust and German Studies (Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literatur)
Erin McGlothlin
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Description for Persistent Legacy: The Holocaust and German Studies (Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literatur)
Hardcover. New essays by prominent scholars in German and Holocaust Studies exploring the boundaries and confluences between the fields and examining new transnational approaches to the Holocaust. Num Pages: 328 pages, 31 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 636.
In studies of Holocaust representation and memory, scholars of literature and culture traditionally have focused on particular national contexts. At the same time, recent work has brought the Holocaust into the arena of the transnational, leading to a crossroads between localized and global understandings of Holocaust memory. Further complicating the issue are generational shifts that occur with the passage of time, and which render memory and representations of the Holocaust ever more mediated, commodified, and departicularized. Nowhere is the inquiry into Holocaust memory more fraught or potentially more productive than in German Studies, where scholars have struggled to address German ... Read more
In studies of Holocaust representation and memory, scholars of literature and culture traditionally have focused on particular national contexts. At the same time, recent work has brought the Holocaust into the arena of the transnational, leading to a crossroads between localized and global understandings of Holocaust memory. Further complicating the issue are generational shifts that occur with the passage of time, and which render memory and representations of the Holocaust ever more mediated, commodified, and departicularized. Nowhere is the inquiry into Holocaust memory more fraught or potentially more productive than in German Studies, where scholars have struggled to address German ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571139610
SKU
V9781571139610
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About Erin McGlothlin
Erin McGlothlin is assistant professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis.
Reviews for Persistent Legacy: The Holocaust and German Studies (Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literatur)
No matter whether one's entry point into the text is a single discipline or interdisciplinary, the essays offer the reader considerable reward. Contributions are uniformly well-researched, bringing new knowledge and perspectives to light; the essays are written in accessible and jargon-free prose. . . . [This book] should be added to library collections in Holocaust Studies, Jewish Studies, German Studies, ... Read more