On Shoreless Sea : The MS St. Louis Refugee Ship in History, Film, and Popular Memory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grundmann, Roy.

Series:

SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.

Summary:

Combines new archival research with innovative theory to reassess the ship's dramatic voyage and analyze its representation in a broad range of texts, films, and artifacts of popular memory.In 1939, the ocean liner MS St.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: History

Part II: Memory

Part I

1 Jews During the Third Reich: Between Flight and Entrapment

Between Flight and Entrapment

Rereading Évian

The Repercussions of Évian and the Emergence of the "Death Ships"

2 Neocolonialism, Biopolitics, and the Jewish Migrant Business: HAPAG and MS St. Louis

"Mein Feld ist die Welt" - My Field Is the World

HAPAG's Latin America Routes and Jewish Migrant Traffic

HAPAG and Cuba

MS St. Louis

3 Voyage 98: The Unfolding of a Fateful Odyssey

Westbound and Cuba

Crisscrossing the Caribbean

Eastbound

4 The St. Louis Passengers and the Press Coverage of Voyage 98

Tourists - Migrants - Refugees - Inmates: Passenger Accounts of the Trip

The Coverage of the St. Louis Voyage by the US Press

The Coverage of the St. Louis Voyage by the German Press

5 On Shoreless Sea: The St. Louis Voyage, the State of Exception, and the Colonial Turn in Holocaust Studies

The State of Exception in Carl Schmitt's Critique of Weimar Law

Giorgio Agamben's Theory of Bare Life and the State of Exception

The MS St. Louis and the Colonial Turn in Holocaust Studies

Part II

6 The St. Louis Voyage in Popular Memory

Gustav Schröder and the Beginnings of St. Louis Memory Culture

Remembering the St. Louis in Early 1960s West German Mass Culture

From Voyage 98 to Voyage of the Damned

7 Voyage of the Damned on the Big Screen

Production History

Casting, Narrative, Genre

Voyage of the Damned and Heritage Cinema

Melodrama and Jewish Myth

Voyage of the Damned and Colonialism

8 Germany Revisits the St. Louis Voyage: Die Ungewollten - Die Irrfahrt der St. Louis (The Unwanted - The Voyage of the St. Louis)

Die Ungewollten as Docudrama.

The Captain, his Ship, and his Crew

The Archive and the Work of Mourning

Colonialism as Structuring Absence

A History Lesson with Qualifications

9 The St. Louis Voyage and Grassroots Historical Revisionism: Robert M. Krakow's Independent Film Complicit

America on Trial

The Convergence of Two Holocaust Memory Cultures

10 The St. Louis in Multidirectional Memory

Leonardo Padura's Heretics and the Transversal Archive

Meta-Narration and Meta-History in The St. Louis Refugee Ship Blues

Materiality, Abstraction, and Placement: Spaces of Memory In and Around Daniel Libeskind's The Wheel of Conscience

Epilogue: "With Whose Blood Were My Eyes Crafted?" Philipp Scheffner and Merle Kröger's Havarie (2016), the Mediterranean Migrant Crisis, and the St. Louis Voyage

Subverting the Eurocentric Gaze

Terry Diamond's Video and the Negotiation of the Self-Other Binary

The Aestheticization of the Pan in Havarie

The Dinghy and the Cruise Liner

Part III

Appendix 1: Introduction to Gustav Schröder and His Accounts of Voyage 98

Gustav Schröder

Homeless on the High Seas

Appendix 2: Homeless on the High Seas (1949) by Gustav Schröder, translated by Roy Grundmann

The Subject

Prohibition to Land

Cuba Does Not Relent

Whereto?

Back?

Worrisome Days

The Crisis

Emigrant Fate

Appendix of Documents

Appendix 3: Captain's Log, Voyage 98, Part 1, translated by Roy Grundmann

Captain's Log by Gustav Schröder for the Trip to Havana, May 27, 1939

Cherbourg

Havana

Appendix 4: Captain's Log, Voyage 98, Part 2, translated by Roy Grundmann

Captain's Log by Gustav Schröder for the Return Trip from Havana to Antwerp, June 17, 1939

Appendix 5: Addendum to the Captain's Log of Captain Gustav Schröder, MS St. Louis, on the 98th Voyage Home, translated by Roy Grundmann

Notes

Bibliography.

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

979-88-558-0377-8

OCLC:

1537941378