On being adjacent to historical violence / edited by Irene Kacandes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kacandes, Irene, 1958- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Psychological aspects.

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

This book offers to academic and general public readers timely reflections about our relationships to violence. Taking cues from the self-reflexivity, themes, and subject matters of Holocaust, queer, and Black studies, this large group of diverse intellectuals wrestles with questions that connect past, present and future: where do I stand in relation to violence? What is my attitude toward that adjacency? Whose story gets to be told by whom? What story do I take this image to be telling? How do I co-witness to another’s suffering? How do I honor the agency and resilience of family members or historical personages? How do past violence and injustice connect to the present? In smart, self-conscious, passionate, and often painfully beautiful prose, cultural practitioners, historians and cultural studies scholars such as Angelika Bammer, Doris Bergen, Ann Cvetkovich, Marianne Hirsch, Priscilla Layne, Mark Roseman, Leo Spitzer, Susan R. Suleiman and Viktor Witkowski explore such questions, inviting readers to do the same. By making available compelling examples of thinkers performing their own work within the cauldron of crises that came to a boil in 2020 and continued into the next year, this volume proposes strategies for moving forward with hope.

Contents:

On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence: Introduction / Irene Kacandes

PART ONE: CONNECTIONS : Debts / Marianne Hirsch

Telling Our Own Stories and Speaking on Behalf of Others / Amy Shuman, Carol Bohmer and Eric Niyitunga

Suspicious: On Being Policed in an Anti-Black World / Priscilla Layne

Hidden Places: The Indigenous Presence in My Affective Turn / Ann Cvetkovich

On Being Adjacent to the Nazi Disability Murder Project / Dagmar Herzog

Sacrament versus Racism: Converted Jews in Nazi Germany / Susannah Heschel

Buried Words, Exposed Connections / Doris L. Bergen

Affiliative Adjacency and Generational Grief: Ruth Klüger, Ursula Mahlendorf, and the Passing of a Generation / Erin McGlothlin

Identity Freedom or On Choosing Who We Are / Chunjie Zhang

Prisoner Experiences in Times of Crisis / Christina Matzen

Borderlands / Viktor Witkowski

PART TWO: FAMILIES : A Postcard to Zircz (Budapest, 1944) / Susan Rubin Suleiman

Elsa Lost and Found / Sylvia Flescher

"Something Dreadful . . ." [Etwas Schreckliches . . .] / Leo Spitzer

"Cares of a Family Man": A Father's Reflections on Odradek and the Holocaust / Eric Kligerman

Residual Remembrance: Family Genealogies and the Return of the Dead / Karen Remmler

The Unconcealed: Family Secrets as Family History / Leslie Morris

The Flesh of the Family Album: Black Pacific Visual Kinship / Tao Leigh Goffe

"And what about your mother?" / Irene Kacandes

Nelly and Trudie: Deciphering a Transatlantic Family Holocaust Correspondence / Bettina Brandt

I Thought She Was Old, But She Was Really My Age: Tracing Desperation and Resilience in My Grandmothers' Letters from Berlin - Fragments / Atina Grossmann

A Father, a Perpetrator, a Son / Thomas Kuhne

PART THREE: JOURNEYS : Looking for History, Finding a Life / Angelika Bammer

A Journey to Izbica and Sobibor / Mark Roseman

Mrs. Kraus: A Short Story from a Central European Girlhood on the Run / Grazyna Gross

In Hopes of Failing Better: An Academic Afterlife; Or, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: On Altered Lives, Refuges, and Refugees / Adam Zachary Newton

"Is this really necessary?": On Atrocity Images in the Classroom / Brad Prager

The Affects of Reading / Claudia Breger

Falling Down on the Job/On Revulsion (November 2016-September 2020) / Darcy Buerkle

Tears and Empathy: Possible Methodologies for Studying Sexual Violence / Mita Choudhury

Blood, Boden and Belonging / Leo Riegert

Upended / Alicia E. Ellis.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kacandes, Irene On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence

ISBN:

3-11-075329-4

9783110753295

9783110753356

OCLC:

1287134483