Topographies of Suffering

Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-709-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of “monument fatigue”, a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of murder by the Nazis: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. Bringing together recent scholarship from cultural memory and cultural geography, the author focuses on the way these violent histories are remembered, allowing these sites to emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes of encounter in which difficult pasts can be represented and comprehended in the present. This leads to an examination of the role of the environment, or, more particularly, the ways in which the natural environment, co-opted in the process of killing, becomes a medium for remembrance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rapson, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: BUCHENWALD

Chapter 1. Defining and Redefining Buchenwald

Chapter 2. Semprun’s Buchenwald

Chapter 3. Buchenwald to New Orleans

PART II: BABI YAR

Chapter 4. Marginalized Memories

Chapter 5. Babi Yar’s Literary Journey

Chapter 6. Kiev to Denver

PART III: LIDICE

Chapter 7. Between the Past and the Future

Chapter 8. Lidice Travels

Chapter 9. Twinning Lidice

Conclusion: Travelling to Remember

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rapson, Jessica
Jessica Rapson is a Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. She is co-editor, with Lucy Bond, of The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders (de Gruyter 2014).