Bibliograph

Memorializing the Holocaust, gender, genocide and collective memory, Janet Jacobs

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Memorializing the Holocaust, gender, genocide and collective memory, Janet Jacobs

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-168) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Memorializing the Holocaust

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

465618171

Responsibility statement

Janet Jacobs

Sub title

gender, genocide and collective memory

Summary

How do collective memories of histories of violence and trauma in war and genocide come to be created? Janet Jacobs offers new understandings of this crucial issue in her examination of the representation of gender in the memorial culture of holocaust monuments and museums

Table Of Contents

Introduction: the project of memory and the study of the Holocaust -- Genocide and the ethics of feminist scholarship -- Gender and collective memory: women and representation at Auschwitz -- Ravensbruck: the memorialization of women's suffering and survival -- Jewish memory and the emasculation of the sacred: Kristallnacht in the German landscape -- Gender and remembrance: pre-nineteenth-century Jews in European memory -- Relational narratives in survivor memory and the future of Holocaust memorialization

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