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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Holocaust studies"”.
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HBO and the Holocaust: Conspiracy, the historical film, and public history at Wannsee
… devoid of the usual clichés prevalent throughout Holocaust films. It also engages with historiographical arguments and makes a few of its own. This thesis argues that dramatic film has been relatively ignored by the public history field and uses Conspiracy as a case study for how dramatic film and …
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Negotiating the past in Weimar culture: Neue Sachlichkeit and Irmgard Keun's Das kunstseidene Mädchen
… important topics in German literature, such as Holocaust studies. My thesis seeks to answer the question of how New Objectivity negotiates the past by examining examples of historical and personal memory within Keun’s novel and analyzing the different ways in which characters relate to their …
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The journey of antisemitism: how hate is translated to perpetrator behavior
… the Jewish people within the context of the Holocaust that took place during World War II. By taking an interdisciplinary approach to the consideration of, among other things, the role of Christianity in the persecution of Jews, this research aims to pull together the work of multiple experts …
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De la subjectivité dans le discours sur le génocide au Burundi. Analyse critique de quelques témoignages médiatisés entre 1993 et 2010
Partant d’un corpus multimédia et multilingue produit et cueilli dans un cadre particulièrement subjectif, l’étude analyse des témoignages sur le génocide au Burundi qui émanent de sujets verbalisant leur vécu dans l’après-acte. S’appuyant sur la théorie de Kerbrat-Orecchioni, l’étude explore les …
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Postmemory and Gender in Contemporary Spain: Intergenerational Dialogues on the Spanish Civil War
… upon theoretical and critical readings from the Holocaust Studies context, and am indebted to Marianne Hirsch's formulation of "postmemory" as a unifying concept throughout the project. Postmemory is memory mediated by temporal distance from the traumatic event, but also by claims to authority …
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Methods of Teaching the Holocaust to Secondary Students as Implemented by Tennessee Recipients of the Belz-Lipman Holocaust Educator of the Year Awards.
<p>Teaching the Holocaust is a challenging task. Not only do educators have a responsibility to impart the historical information surrounding these events, but issues of humanity are also an important part of the lessons. As of 2001, Holocaust education has been mandated by at least 6 states in the …
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Passing on: "The Weight of Memory" and the Second Generation Fiction of Anne Michaels, W. G. Sebald and Bernhard Schlink
The value of second generation fiction for Holocaust studies can be found in its self-conscious examination of what might constitute an ethical response to the testimony of another. I bring together the fictional texts of three authors of the generation after, Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces, W. G. …
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La vigencia de lo <i>r/Real</i>: la memoria traumática y el relato policial postdictatorial en Argentina y Chile, 1996–2015
… theories of memory and trauma generated through Holocaust Studies and local discourses that center on recent State violence. The study proposes that the ongoing repercussions of this violence in the domain of nations’ and individuals’ (sub)consciences point to the permanence of the traumatic …
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Uncanny Homelands: Disability, Race, and the Politics of Memory
… on two marginalized aspects of the memory of the Holocaust: the Nazi "euthanasia" program directed against the mentally ill and disabled, and the Fascist persecution of Slovenes, Croats, and Jews in and around Trieste. I couple my analysis of memorials to these atrocities with an examination of …
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Absent meaning: Fascination, narrative, and trauma in the Holocaust imaginary
<p>Examining post-1970 representations of the Holocaust and Nazism along with critical responses to these representations, the dissertation demonstrates how a use of the term "fascination" has shaped contemporary understandings of how the Holocaust should and should not be represented and …
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After "Postmemory": Coping with Holocaust Remembrance in Postmodern Hebrew Literature
… the time has come to pursue a new modality of Holocaust remembrance. It assumes that when we speak of “remembering” we are referring to acts of remembrance, for, with the exception of those who lived through the Holocaust, those of us who were not “there” cannot remember the actual events of …
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16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature
… It uses the methods of cultural memory studies to analyse the influence of literature on individual and collective memory: in other words, on the reader and on society. The corpus of enquiry of this PhD project is based on the four most complex and influential Italian literary texts …
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Trauma, Memory and Victimhood: Estonia and the Holocaust, 1998-2012
… post-Soviet European identity. As a result, the Holocaust in Estonia has played a less substantial role in both scholarship, and public debate, specifically regarding the nature of local participation in the elimination of Jewish life in Estonia. The subject was catapulted onto the national …
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Contested Memories: The Role of Victim Rivalry in Shaping Heritage and Memory at the Concentration Camps of Dachau and Ulm – Oberer Kuhberg
This dissertation examines the memory culture discourse emerging from interactions with Difficult Heritage sites associated with genocide and trauma, specifically through the lens of 'victim rivalry.' Victim rivalry is defined as the phenomenon where groups or individuals engage in counter-victim …