Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age

✍ Scribed by Amos Goldberg (editor); Haim Hazan (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 383
• Series: Making Sense of History; 21
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. As part of a worldwide vocabulary, that language helps set the tenor of the era of globalization. This volume addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered global discourse by critically examining their function and inherent dilemmas, and the ways in which Holocaust-related matters still instigate public debate and academic deliberation. It contends that the contradiction between the totalizing logic of globalization and the assumed uniqueness of the Holocaust generates continued intellectual and practical discontent.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
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Preface
Section I INTRODUCTIONS
CHAPTER 1 Ethics, Identity, and Antifundamental Fundamentalism: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age (a Cultural-Political Introduction)
CHAPTER 2 Globalization versus Holocaust: An Anthropological Conundrum
Section II HOW GLOBAL IS HOLOCAUST MEMORY?
CHAPTER 3 The Holocaust Is Not— and Is Not Likely to Become— a Global Memory
CHAPTER 4 The Holocaust as a Symbolic Manual: The French Revolution, the Holocaust, and Global Memories
CHAPTER 5 “After Auschwitz” A Constitutive Turning Point in Moral Philosophy
CHAPTER 6 Cosmopolitan Body: The Holocaust as Route to the Globally Human
Section III MEMORY, TRAUMA, AND TESTIMONY The Holocaust and Non-Western Memories
CHAPTER 7 Holocaust Memories and Cosmopolitan Practices: Humanitarian Witnessing between Emergencies and the Catastrophe
CHAPTER 8 The Global Semiotics of Trauma and Testimony: A Comparative Study of Jewish Israeli, Cambodian Canadian, and Cambodian Genocide Descendant Legacies
CHAPTER 9 Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness
CHAPTER 10 Commemorating the Twentieth Century: The Holocaust and Nonviolent Struggle in Global Discourse
CHAPTER 11 Rethinking the Politics of the Past: Multidirectional Memory in the Archives of Implication
Section IV THE POETICS OF THE GLOBAL EVENT A Critical View
CHAPTER 12 Pain and Pleasure in Poetic Representations of the Holocaust
CHAPTER 13 Auschwitz: George Tabori’s Short Joke
CHAPTER 14 The Law of Dispersion: A Reading of W. G. Sebald’s Prose
CHAPTER 15 Holocaust Envy: Globalization of the Holocaust in Israeli Discourse
Section V CLOSURE
CHAPTER 16 Messages from a Present Past: The Kristallnacht as Symbolic Turning Point in Nazi Rule
CHAPTER 17 A Personal Postscript
Contributors
Index