In an era of globalization and identity politics, this book
explores how Holocaust imagery and vocabulary have been
appropriated and applied to other genocides.
The author examines how the Holocaust has impacted on other
ethnic and social groups, asking whether the Holocaust as a symbol
is a useful or destructive means of reading non-Jewish history.
This volume:
- explains the rise of the Holocaust as a gradual process,
charting how its importance as a symbol has evolved, providing a
theoretical framework to understand how and why non-Jewish groups
choose to invoke 'holocausts' to apply to other events
- explores the Holocaust in relation to colonialism and
indigenous genocide, with case studies on America, Australia and
New Zealand
- analyzes the Holocaust in relation to war and genocide, with
case studies on the Armenian genocide, the Rape of Nanking, Serbia
and the Rwandan genocide
- examines how the Holocaust has been used to promote animal
rights.
Demonstrating both the opportunities and pitfalls the Holocaust
provides to non-Jewish groups who seek to represent their
collective histories, this book fills a much needed gap on the use
of the Holocaust in contemporary identity politics and will be of
interest to students and researchers of politics, the Holocaust and
genocide.
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