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Author:   Joanne Pettitt (University of Kent, Canterbury, UK) ,  Vered Weiss (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367220167

ISBN 10:   0367220164
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   21 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction Section one: geographies of the Holocaust 1. Life in space, space in life: Nazi topographies, geographical imaginations, and Lebensraum 2. Controversies surrounding the excavation at Börneplatz, Frankfurt am Main, 1987 Section two: remembering and experiencing the concentration camps in the present day 3. ""Romantic Auschwitz"": examples and perceptions of contemporary visitor photography at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum 4. The concentration camp brothels in memory 5. The sacred, the profane, and the space in between: site-specific performance at Auschwitz Section three: filmic topographies 6. The cinematic city and the destruction of Lublin’s Jews 7. Transcultural engagement with Polish memory of the Holocaust while watching Leszek Wosiewicz’s Kornblumenblau Section four: literary topographies 8. Post-witnessing the concentration camps: Paul Auster’s and Angela Morgan Cutler’s investigative and imaginative encounters with sites of mass murder 9. Extra-territorial places in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz 10. British representations of the camps Afterword"

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Joanne Pettitt is based in the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Vered Weiss is a post-doc working in the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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