Overview
The Holocaust was the defining cataclysm of modernity. Now, more than three quarters of a century later, the immersive, interactive technologies of the digital age are dramatically refashioning our memory of that genocide. Virtual Holocaust Memory offers the first comprehensive account of a unique historical juncture, as twenty-first century digital culture meets the edge of living Holocaust memory. The book considers a range of projects that are being developed by museums, archives, businesses, and educational organizations in the USA and Europe, including interactive video testimony, Virtual Reality films, Augmented Reality apps, museum installations, and online exhibitions. Drawing on an original conceptual framework that incorporates connective memory, palimpsestic testimony, and a notion of 'truthfulness' first applied to testimonial writing by the survivor Charlotte Delbo, this groundbreaking book argues that the value of virtual Holocaust memory--that is to say its truthfulness--will ultimately come to rest on the connections that it establishes across a complex set of subject positions. These range from 'new bystanders', who encounter Holocaust memory from a position of relative safety, to the traumatized victims whose extreme physical and psychological experiences made communicating so difficult in the first place.
Full Product Details
Author: Matthew Boswell (Programme Manager, Media Cymru, Programme Manager, Media Cymru, Cardiff University) ,
Antony Rowland (Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 15.60cm
Weight: 0.445kg
ISBN: 9780197645406
ISBN 10: 0197645402
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 27 March 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Virtual Holocaust Memory is several books in one. * Bryan Cheyette, Times Literary Supplement *
Virtual Holocaust Memory is several books in one. * Bryan Cheyette, Times Literary Supplement * Virtual Holocaust Memory explores the most significant methodological developments in Holocaust heritage and pedagogy at the present time. * German Studies Review *
Author Information
Matthew Boswell is the Programme Manager of Media Cymru: a consortium of film and television companies, universities, and public bodies driving sustainable growth in the Welsh media sector. He is the author of Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film (2012). Antony Rowland has published nine books, including Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry (2022), The Future of Testimony (co-edited with Jane Kilby) (2014) and Holocaust Poetry (2005). He received an Eric Gregory award from the Society of Authors in 2000 and is currently a member of the Higher Education Committee for the English Association.
