American public memory and the Holocaust : performing gender, shifting orientations / Lisa A. Costello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Costello, Lisa A., Author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust memorials--Social aspects--United States.

Holocaust memorials.

Collective memory--United States.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2019.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : Lexington Books, 2019.

Summary:

The recent rise of global antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and American white nationalism has created a dangerous challenge to Holocaust public memory on an unprecedented scale. This book is a timely exploration of the ways in which next-generation Holocaust survivors combine old and new media to bring newer generations of audiences into active engagement with Holocaust histories. Readers have been socialized to expect memorialization artifacts about the Holocaust to come in the form of diaries, memoirs, photos, or documentaries in which gender is often absent or marginalized. This book shows a complex process of remembering the past that can positively shift our orientations toward others. Using gender, performance, and rhetoric as a frame, Lisa Costello questions public memory as gender neutral while showing how new forms of memorialization like digital archives, YouTube posts, hybrid memoirs, and small films build emotional connections that bring us closer to the past.

Contents:

Chapter One: Claude Lanzmanns Shoah and the Opening of Testimony Archives: Gender and Performance in Public Memory ; Chapter Two: Schindlers List and its After- A ffect: Son of Saul, Spielbergs List, and the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive ; Chapter Three: Is it Happening Again? How Womens Deferred Memories Perform Holocaust Public Memory: Ruth Klger and the Levys ; Chapter Four: Next Generation Texts: Reclaiming the Body; Reclaiming Auschwitz ; Chapter Five: Performing Gender in Local Holocaust Museums: Memorial Spaces and Community Places

ISBN:

1-66698-419-1

1-7936-0016-3

OCLC:

1475754544