Tracing topographies : revisiting the concentration camps seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz /
Seventy years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, the contributions collected in this volume each attempt, in various ways and from various perspectives, to trace the relationship between Nazi-occupied spaces and Holocaust memory, considering the multitude of ways in which the passing of time impac...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1 : Geographies of the Holocaust. Life in space, space in life : Nazi topographies, geographical imaginations, and Lebensraum / Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca
- Controversies surrounding the excavation at Börneplatz, Frankfurt am Main, 1987 / Joseph Cronin
- Section 2 : Remembering and experiencing the concentration camps in the present day. "Romantic Auschwitz" : examples and perceptions of contemporary visitor photography at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum / Imogen Dalziel
- The concentration camp brothels in memory / Nicole Bogue
- The sacred, the profane, and the space in between : site-specific performance at Auschwitz / Samantha Mitschke
- Section 3 : Filmic topographies. The cinematic city and the destruction of Lublin's Jews / Maurizio Cinquegrani
- Transcultural engagement with Polish memory of the Holocaust while watching Leszek Wosiewicz's Kornblumenblau / Victoria Grace Walden
- Section 4 : Literary topographies. Post-witnessing the concentration camps : Paul Auster's and Angela Morgan Cutler's investigative and imaginative encounters with sites of mass murder / Diana I. Popescu
- Extra-territorial places in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Melanie Dilly
- British representations of the camps / Sue Vice
- Afterword / Joanne Pettitt and Vered Weiss.