Lessons and Legacies, Volume XVI
Rethinking Paradigms
Will be published approx. on 15. October 2026
Book
Hardback
336 pages
979-8-89948-126-0 (ISBN)
Description
Bringing forth new perspectives previously unrepresented in Holocaust studies
Lessons and Legacies, Volume XVI: Rethinking Paradigms does the difficult but crucial work of thinking through new methods and modes of representation that speak to where we find ourselves in Holocaust studies today, responding to-and developing new tools to analyze-the shifting shape of Holocaust memory: spatially, temporally, and in and across diverse media. The collection foregrounds the challenges visual sources pose to how we think about the Holocaust, including how it is represented differently in visual media, from photography to graphic novels, and establishes translation as a crucial concept for reframing Holocaust testimony and memory. The contributing authors also model ethical, nuanced ways to conduct comparative, connective work that challenges Eurocentric narratives of the Holocaust. The volume concludes with a section on memory work and activism that approaches the subject of post-1945 memory through different lenses to surface lesser-known aspects of Holocaust history.
Lessons and Legacies, Volume XVI: Rethinking Paradigms does the difficult but crucial work of thinking through new methods and modes of representation that speak to where we find ourselves in Holocaust studies today, responding to-and developing new tools to analyze-the shifting shape of Holocaust memory: spatially, temporally, and in and across diverse media. The collection foregrounds the challenges visual sources pose to how we think about the Holocaust, including how it is represented differently in visual media, from photography to graphic novels, and establishes translation as a crucial concept for reframing Holocaust testimony and memory. The contributing authors also model ethical, nuanced ways to conduct comparative, connective work that challenges Eurocentric narratives of the Holocaust. The volume concludes with a section on memory work and activism that approaches the subject of post-1945 memory through different lenses to surface lesser-known aspects of Holocaust history.
Reviews / Votes
"This is an outstanding work of rigorous and ground-breaking scholarship that will define the field of Holocaust studies in the years to come." -Tabea Alexa Linhard, Rice UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
16 b&w halftones
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
979-8-89948-126-0 (9798899481260)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Sarah Phillips Casteel is a professor of English at Carleton University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Jennifer V. Evans is a professor of history at Carleton University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Jennifer V. Evans is a professor of history at Carleton University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Content
Sarah Phillips Casteel and Jennifer Evans, Introduction: Rethinking Paradigms
I. Visuality
1. Dorota Glowacka, She Was Once Beautiful": Representations of Female Bodies in Visual Art from the Holocaust
2. Victoria Aarons, Child Survivor Graphic Narratives: Visualizing Memory and Testimony
3. Elissa Mailaender, Listening to Photographs of Wehrmacht Soldiers: Trophy Selfies as Social Images
II. Translation
4. Peter Davies, Knowledge, Testimony, Translation: Interpreting at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial
5. Brigitte Stepanov, Translating Paradigms Through a Franco-Algerian Lens: Zahia Rahmani on Colonial Legacies and the Holocaust
III. Encounters and Entanglements
6. Pragya Kaul Guido, Jewish Refugees and British Indians: New Imperial Perspectives on the Global Holocaust
7. Yu Wang, "Long Road Home": Jewish and German Scholars in China after the Cultural Revolution
8. Lisa M. Todd, Rassenschande: Racial and Sexual Segregation in German Southwest Africa and the Third Reich, 1904-1942
9. Joanna Krongold, "They Never Win When We Remember": Memory, Resistance, and the Representation of Genocide in Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves Series
IV. Memory Work/Activism
10. Helmut Walser Smith, Sojourns: Jewish Refugees and Survivors in their German Hometowns in the 1980s
11. Frances Tanzer, Klezmer Dynasty: Melancholy and Holocaust Memory
12. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden, Investigating the Space in Between: Digital Walkthroughs with Commemoration Creators
13. Carli Snyder, "Were You Afraid of That?": Joseph Ringelheim's Feminism-Informed Interviewing Strategies and Survivors' Memories of Fear of Rape, 1979-1984
Contributors
Acknowledgments
I. Visuality
1. Dorota Glowacka, She Was Once Beautiful": Representations of Female Bodies in Visual Art from the Holocaust
2. Victoria Aarons, Child Survivor Graphic Narratives: Visualizing Memory and Testimony
3. Elissa Mailaender, Listening to Photographs of Wehrmacht Soldiers: Trophy Selfies as Social Images
II. Translation
4. Peter Davies, Knowledge, Testimony, Translation: Interpreting at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial
5. Brigitte Stepanov, Translating Paradigms Through a Franco-Algerian Lens: Zahia Rahmani on Colonial Legacies and the Holocaust
III. Encounters and Entanglements
6. Pragya Kaul Guido, Jewish Refugees and British Indians: New Imperial Perspectives on the Global Holocaust
7. Yu Wang, "Long Road Home": Jewish and German Scholars in China after the Cultural Revolution
8. Lisa M. Todd, Rassenschande: Racial and Sexual Segregation in German Southwest Africa and the Third Reich, 1904-1942
9. Joanna Krongold, "They Never Win When We Remember": Memory, Resistance, and the Representation of Genocide in Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves Series
IV. Memory Work/Activism
10. Helmut Walser Smith, Sojourns: Jewish Refugees and Survivors in their German Hometowns in the 1980s
11. Frances Tanzer, Klezmer Dynasty: Melancholy and Holocaust Memory
12. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden, Investigating the Space in Between: Digital Walkthroughs with Commemoration Creators
13. Carli Snyder, "Were You Afraid of That?": Joseph Ringelheim's Feminism-Informed Interviewing Strategies and Survivors' Memories of Fear of Rape, 1979-1984
Contributors
Acknowledgments