| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 193 pages) |
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data file |
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Bibliography |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In Aversion and Erasure, Carolyn J. Dean offers an account of how the Holocaust's status as humanity's most terrible example of evil has shaped contemporary discourses about victims in the West. Dean explores the pervasive idea that suffering and trauma in the United States and Western Europe have become central to identity, with victims competing for recognition by displaying their collective wounds. She argues that this notion has never been examined systematically even though it now possesses the force of self-evidence. --From publisher's description. |
| Contents |
Introduction : victims, suffering, identity -- The surfeit of Jewish memory -- French discourses on exorbitant Jewish memory -- Minimalism and victim testimony -- Erasures. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
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Victims.
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Victims. |
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Collective memory.
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Collective memory. |
| Chronological Term |
1939-1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960- Aversion and erasure. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010 (DLC) 2010023525 |
| ISBN |
9780801460333 (electronic book) |
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0801460336 (electronic book) |
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9780801449444 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0801449448 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40018873778 |
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