Title Statements
- Full title :On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence / edited by Irene Kacandes.
Summary
This book offers to academic and general public readers timely reflections about our relationships to violence. Taking cues from the self-reflexivity, themes, and subject matters of Holocaust, queer, and Black studies, this large group of diverse intellectuals wrestles with questions that connect past, present and future: where do I stand in relation to violence? What is my attitude toward that adjacency? Whose story gets to be told by whom? What story do I take this image to be telling? How do I co-witness to another's suffering? How do I honor the agency and resilience of family members or historical personages? How do past violence and injustice connect to the present? In smart, self-conscious, passionate, and often painfully beautiful prose, cultural practitioners, historians and cultural studies scholars such as Angelika Bammer, Doris Bergen, Ann Cvetkovich, Marianne Hirsch, Priscilla Layne, Mark Roseman, Leo Spitzer, Susan R. Suleiman and Viktor Witkowski explore such questions, inviting readers to do the same. By making available compelling examples of thinkers performing their own work within the cauldron of crises that came to a boil in 2020 and continued into the next year, this volume proposes strategies for moving forward with hope.
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- Publication Date:2022
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):De Gruyter
- Place of Publication:Berlin
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2022
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783110753295, 3110753294
- oclc:on1286681941
- LC Classification:HM1116
- Dewey Decimal:303.6
Table of Contents
On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence: Introduction -- Part One: Connections -- Debts -- Telling Our Own Stories and Speaking on Behalf of Others -- Suspicious: On Being Policed in an Anti-Black World -- Hidden Places: The Indigenous Presence in My Affective Turn -- On Being Adjacent to the Nazi Disability Murder Project -- Sacrament versus Racism: Converted Jews in Nazi Germany -- Buried Words, Exposed Connections -- Affiliative Adjacency and Generational Grief: Ruth Kl|ger, Ursula Mahlendorf, and the Passing of a Generation -- Identity Freedom or On Choosing Who We Are -- Prisoner Experiences in Times of Crisis -- Borderlands -- Part Two: Families -- A Postcard to Zircz (Budapest, 1944) -- Elsa Lost and Found -- "Something Dreadful . . ." [Etwas Schreckliches . . .] -- "Cares of a Family Man": A Father's Reflections on Odradek and the Holocaust -- Residual Remembrance: Family Genealogies and the Return of the Dead -- The Unconcealed: Family Secrets as Family History -- The Flesh of the Family Album: Black Pacific Visual Kinship -- "And what about your mother?" -- Nelly and Trudie: Deciphering a Transatlantic Family Holocaust Correspondence -- I Thought She Was Old, But She Wa…
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