Aversion and erasure : the fate of the victim after the Holocaust /

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In Aversion and Erasure, Carolyn J. Dean offers an account of how the Holocaust's status as humanity's most terrible example of evil has shaped contemporary discourses about victims in the West. Dean explores the pervasive idea that suffering and trauma in the United States and Western Eur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
1939-1945
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Moral and ethical aspects.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence.
Victims.
Collective memory.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Aspect moral.
Victimes.
Mémoire collective.
HISTORY > Holocaust.
Collective memory
Ethics
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Victims
Judenvernichtung
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Holocaust.
Slachtoffers.
Identiteit.
Culturele aspecten.
Joden.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : victims, suffering, identity
  • The surfeit of Jewish memory
  • French discourses on exorbitant Jewish memory
  • Minimalism and victim testimony
  • Erasures.

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