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The historical uncanny :

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0823262804

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0823262812

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9780823262809

(Number (ISBN

9780823262816

Erroneous ISBN

0823262782

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9780823262786

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The historical uncanny :

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[Book]

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disability, ethnicity, and the politics of Holocaust memory /

First Statement of Responsibility

Susanne C. Knittel.

Edition Statement

First edition.

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New York :

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Fordham University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2015]

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©2015

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1 online resource

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction -- Part I -- Remembering euthanasia : Grafeneck as heterotopia -- Bridging the silence, part I : the disabled enabler -- Bridging the silence, part II : the vicarious witness -- Interlude -- Lethal trajectories : perpetrators from Grafeneck to the Risiera -- Part II -- Black holes and revelations : the Risiera, the foibe, and the making of an "Italian tragedy" -- A severed branch : the memory of fascism on stage and screen -- Bridging the silence, part III : Trieste and the language of belonging -- Conclusion.

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The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical memories that discomfit a public's self-understanding, this book proposes the historical uncanny as that which resists reification precisely because it cannot be assimilated to dominant discourses of commemoration. Focusing on the problems of representation and reception, the book explores memorials for two marginalized aspects of Holocaust: the Nazi euthanasia program directed against the mentally ill and disabled and the Fascist persecution of Slovenes, Croats, and Jews in and around Trieste. Reading these memorials together with literary and artistic texts, Knittel redefines 'sites of memory' as assemblages of cultural artifacts and discourses that accumulate over time; they emerge as a physical and a cultural space that is continually redefined, rewritten, and re-presented. In bringing perspectives from disability studies and postcolonialism to the question of memory, Knittel unsettles our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the culture of contemporary Europe.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt9m4q79

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0823262782

Collective memory-- Political aspects.

Croats-- Crimes against-- History-- 20th century.

Euthanasia-- Government policy-- Germany-- History-- 20th century.

Holocaust memorials-- Political aspects-- Germany.

Holocaust memorials-- Political aspects-- Italy.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-- Historiography.

Killing of the mentally ill-- Germany-- History-- 20th century.

People with disabilities-- Nazi persecution.

Slovenes-- Crimes against-- History-- 20th century.

World War, 1939-1945-- Atrocities.

Atrocities.

Euthanasia-- Government policy.

Historiography.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Western.

Holocaust memorials-- Political aspects.

Killing of the mentally ill.

People with disabilities-- Nazi persecution.

Germany.

Italy.

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HIS-- 010020

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Knittel, Susanne C.

Modern Language Initiative.

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20200822141033.0

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[Book]

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