Title The historical uncanny : disability, ethnicity, and the politics of Holocaust memory / Susanne C. Knittel

Edition First edition Published New York : Fordham University Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Vendor-supplied metadata Subject People with disabilities -- Nazi persecution. Killing of the mentally ill -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Euthanasia -- Government policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Slovenes -- Crimes against -- History -- 20th century Croats -- Crimes against -- History -- 20th century Collective memory -- Political aspects Holocaust memorials -- Political aspects -- Germany Holocaust memorials -- Political aspects -- Italy Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography. World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. Disabled Persons -- history Holocaust -- history Euthanasia -- history Jews -- history World War II HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. Atrocities Euthanasia -- Government policy Historiography Holocaust memorials -- Political aspects Killing of the mentally ill People with disabilities -- Nazi persecution SUBJECT Germany https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005858 Italy https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007558 Slovenia https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017524 Subject Germany Italy Genre/Form Electronic books History Personal narratives Personal narratives. Récits personnels. Form Electronic book Author Modern Language Initiative. ISBN 9780823262809 0823262804 0823262812 9780823262816 9780823266500 0823266508

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