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Zusatztext Jessica Rapson's book Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice represents an important and innovative contribution to the burgeoning ?eld of memory studies The result is a rich, multi-perspective study that is both strong in its comparative dimension and in its attention to interconnections. • Central Europe Jessica Rapson has written a fascinating book that can be immensely inspiring. One may not agree with her all the time, but this makes her discourse contribution even more valuable. • H-Soz-Kult This book is a clear interdisciplinary innovation in debates over memory. Making controversial and important new arguments, through very well-chosen and well-balanced case studies, it is a significant intervention in the field and should be widely read. • Robert Eaglestone , University of London An interesting and original work, which prompts us to reflect on memories as dynamic elements and presents the past as a challenging arena always in connection with the present. • Alexandre Dessingué , University of Stavanger Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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
Jessica Rapson's book Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice represents an important and innovative contribution to the burgeoning eld of memory studies The result is a rich, multi-perspective study that is both strong in its comparative dimension and in its attention to interconnections. • Central Europe
Jessica Rapson has written a fascinating book that can be immensely inspiring. One may not agree with her all the time, but this makes her discourse contribution even more valuable. • H-Soz-Kult
This book is a clear interdisciplinary innovation in debates over memory. Making controversial and important new arguments, through very well-chosen and well-balanced case studies, it is a significant intervention in the field and should be widely read. • Robert Eaglestone, University of London
An interesting and original work, which prompts us to reflect on memories as dynamic elements and presents the past as a challenging arena always in connection with the present. • Alexandre Dessingué, University of Stavanger
Autorentext
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).
Klappentext
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.
Zusammenfassung
Examining the Holocaust in literature, landscape and memory, this book examines three sites of murder by the Nazis: Buchenwald, Germany; Babi Yar, Ukraine; and Lidice, Czech Republic.
Inhalt
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
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