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OverviewCommentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of monument fatigue , a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of murder by the Nazis: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. Bringing together recent scholarship from cultural memory and cultural geography, the author focuses on the way these violent histories are remembered, allowing these sites to emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes of encounter in which difficult pasts can be represented and comprehended in the present. This leads to an examination of the role of the environment, or, more particularly, the ways in which the natural environment, co-opted in the process of killing, becomes a medium for remembrance. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jessica RapsonPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781785335112ISBN 10: 1785335111 Pages: 242 Publication Date: 01 June 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: BUCHENWALD Chapter 1. Defining and Redefining Buchenwald Chapter 2. Semprun's Buchenwald Chapter 3. Buchenwald to New Orleans PART II: BABI YAR Chapter 4. Marginalized Memories Chapter 5. Babi Yar's Literary Journey Chapter 6. Kiev to Denver PART III: LIDICE Chapter 7. Between the Past and the Future Chapter 8. Lidice Travels Chapter 9. Twinning Lidice Conclusion: Travelling to Remember Bibliography IndexReviewsJessica Rapson has written a fascinating book... that can be immensely inspiring. One may not agree with her all the time, but this makes her discourse contribution even more valuable. * H-Soz-Kult This book is a clear interdisciplinary innovation in debates over memory. Making controversial and important new arguments, through very well-chosen and well-balanced case studies, it is a significant intervention in the field and should be widely read. * Robert Eaglestone, University of London ...An interesting and original work, which... prompts us to reflect on memories as dynamic elements and presents the past as a challenging arena always in connection with the present. * Alexandre Dessingue, University of Stavanger Jessica Rapson has written a fascinating book... that can be immensely inspiring. One may not agree with her all the time, but this makes her discourse contribution even more valuable. * H-Soz-Kult Author InformationJessica Rapson is a Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London. She is co-editor, with Lucy Bond, of The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders (de Gruyter 2014). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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