American Public Memory and the Holocaust
Performing Gender, Shifting Orientations- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2019
Summary
The recent rise of global antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and American white nationalism has created a dangerous challenge to Holocaust public memory on an unprecedented scale. This book is a timely exploration of the ways in which next-generation Holocaust survivors combine old and new media to bring newer generations of audiences into active engagement with Holocaust histories. Readers have been socialized to expect memorialization artifacts about the Holocaust to come in the form of diaries, memoirs, photos, or documentaries in which gender is often absent or marginalized. This book shows a complex process of remembering the past that can positively shift our orientations toward others. Using gender, performance, and rhetoric as a frame, Lisa Costello questions public memory as gender neutral while showing how new forms of memorialization like digital archives, YouTube posts, hybrid memoirs, and small films build emotional connections that bring us closer to the past.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2019
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-7936-0015-8
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-7936-0016-5
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 220
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- List of Figures No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 22
- Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and the Opening of Testimony Archives No access Pages 23 - 50
- Schindler’s List and Its “After-Affect” No access Pages 51 - 86
- Is It Happening Again? How Women’s Deferred Memories Perform Holocaust Public Memory No access Pages 87 - 120
- “Next Generation” Texts No access Pages 121 - 150
- Performing Gender in Local Holocaust Museums No access Pages 151 - 184
- Conclusion No access Pages 185 - 192
- References No access Pages 193 - 208
- Index No access Pages 209 - 218
- About the Author No access Pages 219 - 220





