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Topographies of Suffering Jessica Rapson

Topographies of Suffering By Jessica Rapson

Topographies of Suffering by Jessica Rapson


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Examining the Holocaust in literature, landscape and memory, this book examines three sites of murder by the Nazis: Buchenwald, Germany; Babi Yar, Ukraine; and Lidice, Czech Republic.

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Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice by Jessica Rapson

Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of monument fatigue, a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of murder by the Nazis: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. Bringing together recent scholarship from cultural memory and cultural geography, the author focuses on the way these violent histories are remembered, allowing these sites to emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes of encounter in which difficult pasts can be represented and comprehended in the present. This leads to an examination of the role of the environment, or, more particularly, the ways in which the natural environment, co-opted in the process of killing, becomes a medium for remembrance.

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Jessica Rapson's book Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice represents an important and innovative contribution to the burgeoning field of memory studies... The result is a rich, multi-perspective study that is both strong in its comparative dimension and in its attention to interconnections. * Central Europe

Jessica Rapson has written a fascinating book... that can be immensely inspiring. One may not agree with her all the time, but this makes her discourse contribution even more valuable. * H-Soz-Kult

This book is a clear interdisciplinary innovation in debates over memory. Making controversial and important new arguments, through very well-chosen and well-balanced case studies, it is a significant intervention in the field and should be widely read. * Robert Eaglestone, University of London

...An interesting and original work, which... prompts us to reflect on memories as dynamic elements and presents the past as a challenging arena always in connection with the present. * Alexandre Dessingue, University of Stavanger

About Jessica Rapson

Jessica Rapson is a Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London. She is co-editor, with Lucy Bond, of The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders (de Gruyter 2014).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: BUCHENWALD

Chapter 1. Defining and Redefining Buchenwald
Chapter 2. Semprun's Buchenwald
Chapter 3. Buchenwald to New Orleans

PART II: BABI YAR

Chapter 4. Marginalized Memories
Chapter 5. Babi Yar's Literary Journey
Chapter 6. Kiev to Denver

PART III: LIDICE

Chapter 7. Between the Past and the Future
Chapter 8. Lidice Travels
Chapter 9. Twinning Lidice

Conclusion: Travelling to Remember

Bibliography
Index

Additional information

NLS9781785335112
9781785335112
1785335111
Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice by Jessica Rapson
New
Paperback
Berghahn Books
2017-06-01
242
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