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Representing Genocide - The Holocaust as Paradigm? (Hardcover)
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Representing Genocide - The Holocaust as Paradigm? (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Genocide
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This book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust
representations have influenced and structured how other genocides
are understood and represented in the West. Rebecca Jinks focuses
in particular on the canonical 20th century cases of genocide:
Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Using literature, film,
photography, and memorialisation, she demonstrates that we can only
understand the Holocaust's status as a 'benchmark' for other
genocides if we look at the deeper, structural resonances which
subtly shape many representations of genocide. Representing
Genocide pursues five thematic areas in turn: how genocides are
recognised as such by western publics; the representation of the
origins and perpetrators of genocide; how western witnesses
represent genocide; representations of the aftermath of genocide;
and western responses to genocide. Throughout, the book
distinguishes between 'mainstream' and other, more nuanced and
engaged, representations of genocide. It shows how these mainstream
representations - the majority - largely replicate the
representational framework of the Holocaust, including the way in
which mainstream Holocaust representations resist recognising the
rationality, instrumentality and normality of genocide, preferring
instead to present it as an aberrant, exceptional event in human
society. By contrast, the more engaged representations - often, but
not always, originating from those who experienced genocide - tend
to revolve around precisely genocide's ordinariness, and the
structures and situations common to human society which contribute
to and become involved in the violence.
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