Social Inheritance of the Holocaust - Gender, Culture and Memory

Informationen zum Autor ANNA READING is Principal Lecturer in the Division of Arts and Media at South Bank University, London. She has published books and articles in the areas of gender, media and cultural memory. She is author of Polish Women, Solidarity and Feminism , (researched with Colin Sparks) and, Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media. Klappentext This book challenges current thinking on memory by examining the complex ways in which the social inheritance of the Nazi Holocaust is gendered. It considers how the past is handed down in the US, Poland and Britain through historiography, autobiographies, documentary and feature films, memorial sites and museums. It explores the configuration of socially inherited memories about the Holocaust in young people of different cultural backgrounds. Scholarly and accessible, the book provides a groundbreaking approach to understanding the significance of gender in relation to cultural mediations of history. Zusammenfassung This book challenges current thinking on memory by examining the complex ways in which the social inheritance of the Nazi Holocaust is gendered. Scholarly and accessible, the book provides a groundbreaking approach to understanding the significance of gender in relation to cultural mediations of history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The 'Wrong' Question: Historiographies The Demolition of a Man: Autobiographies Moving Memories: Propaganda, Documentary and Holocaust Feature Films The Absence of Women's Hair: Memorial Sites and Museums Grandma's Tales: Young Peoples Configurations of Holocaust Memory Conclusion: (Dis)Articulations of Gender, Culture and Memory Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: A Reading, A. Reading
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349414338
• ISBN: 978-1-349-41433-8
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; Europäische Geschichte, B, Kulturwissenschaften, Gender Studies, Kognitive Psychologie, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Cultural Studies, European History, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, Second World War, Social and cultural anthropology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, cognitive psychology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Culture—Study and teaching, Palgrave History Collection, Europe—History, World War, 1939-1945, History of World War II and the Holocaust