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Zusatztext Kitty Millet's comparative study offers a thought-provoking exploration of the imagined communities of victims and perpetrators of mass atrocities. In lucid prose, she draws from individual narratives to consider the subjectivity of victimization. A valuable addition to Genocide Studies. Informationen zum Autor Kitty Millet is Professor of Comparative Jewish Literatures and Holocaust Studies, as well as Chair of the Department of Jewish Studies, at San Francisco State University, USA. She also is the editor of the Bloomsbury Series, Comparative Jewish Literatures . She is also chairperson of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) research committee on Religion, Ethics, and Literature. Her book, The Victims of Slavery, Colonization, and the Holocaust: A Comparative History of Persecution (Bloomsbury, 2017), analyzes the constitutive side of victimization within three groups, slaves in the Americas, Africans under German colonization, and death camp survivors of the Reinhard camps. Vorwort An exploration of the Holocaust victim experience that comparatively contrasts the differing experiences of colonised peoples and slaves in Africa and early America. Zusammenfassung This book provides a sophisticated investigation into the experience of being exterminated, as felt by victims of the Holocaust, and compares and contrasts this analysis with the experiences of people who have been colonized or enslaved. Using numerous victim accounts and a wide range of primary sources, the book moves away from the 'continuity thesis', with its insistence on colonial intent as the reason for victimization in relation to other historical examples of mass political violence, to look at the victim experience on its own terms. By affording each constituent case study its own distinctive aspects, The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust allows for a more enriching comparison of victim experience to be made that respects each group of victims in their uniqueness. It is an important, innovative volume for all students of the Holocaust, genocide and the history of mass political violence. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Comparative Histories of Persecution Part I: Slavery 1. A World of Slaves2. The Formula and 'the Being of Slavery' Part II: Colonialism 3. A World of Colonies and the Evolving Colonial Consciousness4. The Empirical Colony in German Southwest Africa and a Formula of Colonization5. From a Formula for Colonization to a Formula of Extermination and Victims' 'Shared Sense' Part III: The Holocaust 6. An Aryan World and the 'Worldlessness' of Jews7. 'Being' Exterminated and the Formulas of ExterminationConclusion: Observations on the Future Store, the Future Map and the FutureNotesBibliographyName IndexSubject Index...
