The claims of memory - Caroline Alice Wiedmer
representations of the Holocaust in contemporary Germany and France
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Over a half a century after World War II, Germany and France still struggle to understand the Holocaust and to confront their roles in the tragedy. Through an interpretation of a wide array of contemporary cultural texts--including memorials and memorial sites, museums and exhibits, national commemorations, books, and films--Caroline Wiedmer traces the evolution of an often conflicted postwar politics of memory in these two nations. Her analyses of sites of memory and of policies and national debates reveal the two countries' deep-seated ambivalence in the face of a desire to forget the horrors of the Holocaust and the need to remember them. Among the issues Wiedmer examines are France's emerging sense of accountability and the fierce conflicts generated by the "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe" to be built in Berlin. In her detailed account of how the Nazis took over a ready-made system of internment camps built by the French before World War II, and in her discussion of the uses to which the Sachsenh...
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1999Uitgever: Cornell University Press244 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0801434645ISBN-13: 9780801434648Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cornell University Press: Ithaca, 1999. Bound with dustwrapper, 244 pp., notes, index, 16x24x2,5 cm, light traces of use on dustwrapper, in very good condition (F/VG). [Categorie: Geschiedenis] [Auteur: Wiedmer, Caroline.] [Pagina's: 244] [Jaar: 1999] [Titel: The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in contemporary Germany and France.]
