Representing genocide: the Holocaust as paradigm?
"This book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust representations have influenced and structured how other genocides are understood and represented in the West. Rebecca Jinks focuses in particular on the canonical 20th century cases of genocide: Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Using literature, film, photography, and memorialisation, she demonstrates that we can only understand the Holocaust's status as a 'benchmark' for other genocides if we look at the deeper, structural resonanc…
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- Full title :Representing genocide : the Holocaust as paradigm? / Rebecca Jinks.
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"This book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust representations have influenced and structured how other genocides are understood and represented in the West. Rebecca Jinks focuses in particular on the canonical 20th century cases of genocide: Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Using literature, film, photography, and memorialisation, she demonstrates that we can only understand the Holocaust's status as a 'benchmark' for other genocides if we look at the deeper, structural resonances which subtly shape many representations of genocide. Representing Genocide pursues five thematic areas in turn: how genocides are recognised as such by western publics; the representation of the origins and perpetrators of genocide; how western witnesses represent genocide; representations of the aftermath of genocide; and western responses to genocide. Throughout, the book distinguishes between 'mainstream' and other, more nuanced and engaged, representations of genocide. It shows how these mainstream representations -- the majority -- largely replicate the representational framework of the Holocaust, including the way in which mainstream Holocaust representations resist recognising the rationality, instrumentality and normality of genocide, preferring instead to present it as an aberrant, exceptional event in human society. By contrast, the more engaged representations -- often, but not always, originating from those who experienced genocide -- tend to revolve around precisely genocide's ordinariness, and the structures and situations common to human society which contribute to and become involved in the violence"--
"Analyses the historical and cultural representation of the Armenian, Cambodian, Bosnian and Rwandan genocides and the impact of the Holocaust"--
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781474256957, 1474256953, 1474256961, 9781474256964, 9781474256971, 147425697X, 9781474256933, 1474256937
- oclc:ocn949885473
- LC Classification:HV6322.7
- Dewey Decimal:364.15/1
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Recognising Genocide : The 'Genocidal Imaginary' -- Explaining Genocide : Representations of the Origins and Perpetrators of Genocide -- Witnessing Genocide : Western Protagonists in the Theatre of Genocide -- Resolving Genocide : Representations of the Aftermath -- Responding to Genocide : Attitudes and Platitudes -- Conclusion.
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