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The historical uncanny : disability, ethnicity, and the politics of Holocaust memory /

The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical memories that discomfit a public's self-understanding, this book proposes the historical uncanny as t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Knittel, Susanne C. (Author)
Corporate Author: Modern Language Initiative
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • Remembering euthanasia : Grafeneck as heterotopia
  • Bridging the silence, part I : the disabled enabler
  • Bridging the silence, part II : the vicarious witness
  • Interlude
  • Lethal trajectories : perpetrators from Grafeneck to the Risiera
  • Part II
  • Black holes and revelations : the Risiera, the foibe, and the making of an "Italian tragedy"
  • A severed branch : the memory of fascism on stage and screen
  • Bridging the silence, part III : Trieste and the language of belonging
  • Conclusion.