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The Historical Uncanny - Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory (Hardcover)
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The Historical Uncanny - Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory (Hardcover)
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The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become
inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are
suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical
memories that discomfit a public's self-understanding, this book
proposes the historical uncanny as that which resists reification
precisely because it cannot be assimilated to dominant discourses
of commemoration.
Focusing on the problems of representation and reception, the book
explores memorials for two marginalized aspects of Holocaust: the
Nazi euthanasia program directed against the mentally ill and
disabled and the Fascist persecution of Slovenes, Croats, and Jews
in and around Trieste. Reading these memorials together with
literary and artistic texts, Knittel redefines "sites of memory" as
assemblages of cultural artifacts and discourses that accumulate
over time; they emerge as a physical and a cultural space that is
continually redefined, rewritten, and re-presented.
In bringing perspectives from disability studies and
postcolonialism to the question of memory, Knittel unsettles our
understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the culture of
contemporary Europe.
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