Concentrationary Memories
Totalitarian Terror and Cultural Resistance
1st Edition
Published on 25. August 2015
320 pages
978-1-78672-443-4 (ISBN)
Description
In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture. It asks if the concentrationary now infests our cultural imaginary, normalizing what was once considered horrific and exceptional by transforming into entertainment violations of human life.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-78672-443-4 (9781786724434)
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Persons
Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and, since 2001, Director, Centre CATH (Cultural Analysis, Theory & History) at the University of Leeds, UK. Known for her critical interventions in feminist, social, Jewish and postcolonial studies in art's histories, her work ranges from nineteenth and twentieth century fields to that of contemporary art and cinema, museum studies and cultural theory. Her publications include Old Mistresses, Vision and Difference, Avant-Garde Gambits, Generations and Geographies, and Differencing the Canon.
Content
Concentrationary Memories Series Preface
Griselda Pollock & Max Silverman
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Politics of Memory: From Concentrationary Memory to Concentrationary Memories
Griselda Pollock & Max Silverman:
Part 1: Theorising the Political Space and Beyond
Chapter 1 The Memory of Politics: Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt and the Possibility of Encounter
John Wolfe Ackerman
Part 2: Mediations of Memory
Chapter 2 Migration and Motif: the (Parapractic) Memories of an Image
Thomas Elsaesser
Chapter 3 The Two Stages of the Eichmann Trial
Sylvie Lindeperg & Annette Wieviorka
Chapter 4 Brushing the Film Against the Grain: Locating Jean Cayrol's Lazarean Figure in Alain Resnais's Muriel ou le temps d'un retour
Matthew John
Part 3: Camp Visions
Chapter 5 Symbol Re-formation: Concentrationary Memory in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After
Nicholas Chare
Chapter 6 A New Visual Structure for the Unthinkable: The Surrealist Aesthetic and the Concentrationary Sublime in Lee Miller's Photographs of Buchenwald and Dachau
Isabelle de le Court
Chapter 7 Muselmann: a distilled image of the Lager?
Glenn Sujo
Chapter 8 Nameless before the Concentrationary Void: Charlotte Salomon's Leben? oder Theater? 1941-42 after Gurs
Griselda Pollock
Part 4: Beyond the Limits
Chapter 9 Animated Memory: Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir
Claire Launchbury
Chapter 10 Isn't this where...? Projections on Pink Floyd The Wall: Tracing the Concentrationary Image
Benjamin Hannavy Cousen
Chapter 11 Memory Work in Argentina 1976-2006
Laura Malosetti Costa
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Griselda Pollock & Max Silverman
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Politics of Memory: From Concentrationary Memory to Concentrationary Memories
Griselda Pollock & Max Silverman:
Part 1: Theorising the Political Space and Beyond
Chapter 1 The Memory of Politics: Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt and the Possibility of Encounter
John Wolfe Ackerman
Part 2: Mediations of Memory
Chapter 2 Migration and Motif: the (Parapractic) Memories of an Image
Thomas Elsaesser
Chapter 3 The Two Stages of the Eichmann Trial
Sylvie Lindeperg & Annette Wieviorka
Chapter 4 Brushing the Film Against the Grain: Locating Jean Cayrol's Lazarean Figure in Alain Resnais's Muriel ou le temps d'un retour
Matthew John
Part 3: Camp Visions
Chapter 5 Symbol Re-formation: Concentrationary Memory in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After
Nicholas Chare
Chapter 6 A New Visual Structure for the Unthinkable: The Surrealist Aesthetic and the Concentrationary Sublime in Lee Miller's Photographs of Buchenwald and Dachau
Isabelle de le Court
Chapter 7 Muselmann: a distilled image of the Lager?
Glenn Sujo
Chapter 8 Nameless before the Concentrationary Void: Charlotte Salomon's Leben? oder Theater? 1941-42 after Gurs
Griselda Pollock
Part 4: Beyond the Limits
Chapter 9 Animated Memory: Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir
Claire Launchbury
Chapter 10 Isn't this where...? Projections on Pink Floyd The Wall: Tracing the Concentrationary Image
Benjamin Hannavy Cousen
Chapter 11 Memory Work in Argentina 1976-2006
Laura Malosetti Costa
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
