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Informationen zum Autor Ernst van Alphen, Leiden University, NetherlandsJacob Lund, Aarhus University, DenmarkJames E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USAImke Girßmann, University of Oldenburg, GermanyTracy Jean Rosenberg, Goethe University, GermanyTim Cole, University of Bristol, UKJan Borowicz, University of Warsaw, PolandErica Lehrer, Concordia University, CanadaMagdalena Waligórska, Free University, Berlin, GermanyCeri Eldin, Uppsala University, SwedenHampus Östh Gustafsson, Uppsala University, SwedenElizabeth Ward, University of Leeds, UKIngrid Lewis, Dublin City University, IrelandChristine Gundermann, University of Cologne, GermanyChristian Karner, University of Nottingham, UKKristin Wagrell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKLarissa Allwork, University of Northampton, UK Klappentext This volume explores post-2000s artistic engagements with Holocaust memory arguing that imagination plays an increasingly important role in keeping the memory of the Holocaust vivid for contemporary and future audiences. Zusammenfassung This volume explores post-2000s artistic engagements with Holocaust memory arguing that imagination plays an increasingly important role in keeping the memory of the Holocaust vivid for contemporary and future audiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Memory and Imagination in the Post-witness Era; Diana I. PopescuPART I: REVISITING ARTISTIC PRACTICES OF HOLOCAUST COMMEMORATION2. List Mania in Holocaust Commemoration; Ernst van Alphen3. Acts of Remembering in the Work of Esther Shalev-Gerz: From Embodied to Mediated Memory; Jacob Lund4. Countermonuments as Spaces for Deep Memory; James E. Young5. Sites that Matter: Current Developments of Urban Holocaust Commemoration in Berlin and Munich; Imke Girßmann6. Contemporary Holocaust Memorials in Berlin: On the Borders of Sacred and Profane; Tracy Jean Rosenberg PART II: SITES OF STRUGGLE WITH HAUNTING PASTS7. Holocaust Tourism: The Strange yet Familiar/the Familiar yet Strange; Tim Cole8. To Go or Not to Go? Reflections on the Iconic Status of Auschwitz! its Increasing Distance and Prevailing Urgency; Tanja Schult9. Holocaust Zombies: Mourning and Memory in Polish Contemporary Culture; Jan Borowicz10. 'A Picnic Underpinned with Unease': Spring in Warsaw and New Genre Polish-Jewish Memory Work; Erica Lehrer and Magdalena Waligórska11. The Limits of Forgiveness and Postmodern Art; Ceri EldinPART III: RETHINKING REPRESENTATION IN LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE12. Auschwitz! Adorno and the Ambivalence of Representation: The Holocaust as a Point of Reference in Contemporary Literature; Hampus Östh Gustafsson 13. Questions of Re(Presentation) in Uwe Boll's (2011); Elizabeth Ward14. 'Ordinary' Women as Perpetrators in European Holocaust Films; Ingrid Lewis15 Real Imagination? Holocaust Comics in Europe; Christine GundermannPART IV: MEMORY POLITICS IN POST-2000 (TRANS)NATIONAL CONTEXTS16. Austria's Post-Holocaust Jewish Community: A Subaltern Counterpublic between the Ethics and Morality of Memory; Christian Karner17. Cosmopolitan Memory in a National Context: The Case of the 'Living History Forum'; Kristin Wagrell 18. Holocaust Remembrance as 'Civil Religion'? The Case of the Stockholm Declaration (2000); Larissa Allwork ...
