Fantasies of witnessing : postwar efforts to experience the Holocaust /

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"Fantasies of Witnessing explores how and why those deeply interested in the Holocaust, yet with no direct, familial connection to it, endeavor to experience its horror vicariously through sites or texts designed to make the event "real" for nonwitnesses. Gary Weissman argues that far...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weissman, Gary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
1939-1945
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence.
Memory > Social aspects.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Historiographie.
HISTORY > Holocaust.
Historiography
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Memory > Social aspects
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Rezeption
Judenvernichtung
Geschichtsschreibung
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Holocaust.
Letterkunde.
Geheugen.
Films.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: to feel the horror
  • Reading Wiesel
  • The Holocaust experience
  • Shoah illustrated
  • Steven Spielberg and the sensitive line
  • Claude Lanzmann and the Ring of Fire
  • Conclusion: the horror, the horror.

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