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The politics of commemoration: The Holocaust, memory and trauma
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Levy, Daniel Sznaider, Natan |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Description | This chapter examines how changing representations of trauma and memory of the Holocaust, and by extension reference to mass atrocities in general, emerge as a constitutive feature of a European identity project. Changing memories of the Holocaust and its function as the paradigmatic trauma of the twentieth-century, serve as an illustration for the contentious nature of cultural representations. It addresses how 'traumatic' metaphors, addressing acts of extreme violence and innocence, exemplified through representations of the Holocaust, have become a key mechanism to address the precarious balance of universal and particular modes of identification. The particular experience of the Holocaust has become dislodged from its historical context and been inscribed as a universal code of suffering. Prior to the 1960s, there was no 'Holocaust.' There was simply a small 'h' holocaust, which encompassed the killings of World War II, including the mass murder of the Jews. Memories of the Holocaust did not directly cause the emergence of a global legal culture. Book Name: Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9780203086476-26&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 297 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| Starting Page | 289 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203086476-26 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2006-09-27 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory Extreme Representations Function Memory of the Holocaust Memory and Trauma Emergence |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
