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"""This is the first extended study I know of what the author calls a 'Holocaust performative'...[The author] asks what a 'holocaust performative' might look like and how such a study might illuminate 'events of this particular genocide that are unrepresentable and outside the parameters of representation itself' ...[Patraka] contributes an important and possibly contentious dimension to Holocaust studies."" -- James Young"

This is the first extended study I know of what the author calls a 'Holocaust performative'...[The author] asks what a 'holocaust performative' might look like and how such a study might illuminate 'events of this particular genocide that are unrepresentable and outside the parameters of representation itself' ...[Patraka] contributes an important and possibly contentious dimension to Holocaust studies. -- James Young

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Vivian M. Patraka is Professor of English and Theatre and Director of the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society at Bowling Green State University. She has written numerous essays about Holocaust theatre, performance, and museums.

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