Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies) - Softcover

Kaplan, Brett Ashley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415852439 ISBN 13: 9780415852432

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations―whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an interpretive or representational touchstone for genocides and traumas globally? In this interdisciplinary study, Kaplan asks and attempts to answer these questions by looking at historically and geographically diverse spaces, photographs, and texts concerned with the physical and/or mental landscape of the Holocaust and its transformations from the postwar period to the early twenty-first century. Examining the intersections of landscape, postmemory, and trauma, Kaplan's text offers a significant contribution to our understanding of the spatial, visual, and literary reach of the Holocaust.

About this title

About the Author:

Brett Ashley Kaplan is an Associate Professor in the Program in Comparative and World Literature and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Review:

"Recommended." -- W. Lagerwey, Elmhurst College, Choice, February 2011

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0415852439
• ISBN 13: 9780415852432
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272