Tracing topographies : revisiting the concentration camps seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz / edited by Joanne Pettitt and Vered Weiss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pettitt, Joanne, editor.

Weiss, Vered, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auschwitz (Concentration camp).

Nazi concentration camps.

Internment camps.

Memorialization.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 184 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

Seventy years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, the contributions collected in this volume each attempt, in various ways and from various perspectives, to trace the relationship between Nazi-occupied spaces and Holocaust memory, considering the multitude of ways in which the passing of time impacts upon, or shapes, cultural constructions of space. Accordingly, this volume does not consider topographies merely in relation to geographical landscapes but, rather, as markers of allusions and connotations that must be properly eked out. Since space and time are intertwined, if not, in fact, one and the same, an investigation of the spaces - the locations of horror - in relation to the passing of time might provide some manner of comprehension of one of the most troubling moments in human history. It is with this understanding of space, as fluid sites of memory that the contributors of this volume engage: these are the kind of shifting topographies that we are seeking to trace. This book was originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History.

Contents:

Section 1 : Geographies of the Holocaust. Life in space, space in life : Nazi topographies, geographical imaginations, and Lebensraum / Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca

Controversies surrounding the excavation at Börneplatz, Frankfurt am Main, 1987 / Joseph Cronin

Section 2 : Remembering and experiencing the concentration camps in the present day. "Romantic Auschwitz" : examples and perceptions of contemporary visitor photography at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum / Imogen Dalziel

The concentration camp brothels in memory / Nicole Bogue

The sacred, the profane, and the space in between : site-specific performance at Auschwitz / Samantha Mitschke

Section 3 : Filmic topographies. The cinematic city and the destruction of Lublin's Jews / Maurizio Cinquegrani

Transcultural engagement with Polish memory of the Holocaust while watching Leszek Wosiewicz's Kornblumenblau / Victoria Grace Walden

Section 4 : Literary topographies. Post-witnessing the concentration camps : Paul Auster's and Angela Morgan Cutler's investigative and imaginative encounters with sites of mass murder / Diana I. Popescu

Extra-territorial places in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Melanie Dilly

British representations of the camps / Sue Vice

Afterword / Joanne Pettitt and Vered Weiss.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138701564

1138701564

OCLC:

987372310

Publisher Number:

99972877608