On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence

Published by De Gruyter 2022

On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence

Edited by: Irene Kacandes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753295

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This book offers to academic and general public readers timely reflections about our relationships to violence. Taking cues from the self-reflexivity, themes, and subject matters of Holocaust, queer, and Black studies, this large group of diverse intellectuals wrestles with questions that connect past, present and future: where do I stand in relation to violence? What is my attitude toward that adjacency? Whose story gets to be told by whom? What story do I take this image to be telling? How do I co-witness to another’s suffering? How do I honor the agency and resilience of family members or historical personages? How do past violence and injustice connect to the present? In smart, self-conscious, passionate, and often painfully beautiful prose, cultural practitioners, historians and cultural studies scholars such as Angelika Bammer, Doris Bergen, Ann Cvetkovich, Marianne Hirsch, Priscilla Layne, Mark Roseman, Leo Spitzer, Susan R. Suleiman and Viktor Witkowski explore such questions, inviting readers to do the same. By making available compelling examples of thinkers performing their own work within the cauldron of crises that came to a boil in 2020 and continued into the next year, this volume proposes strategies for moving forward with hope.

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Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College; Hanover, NH, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence: Introduction Irene Kacandes Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Part One: Connections
Debts Marianne Hirsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Telling Our Own Stories and Speaking on Behalf of Others Amy Shuman, Carol Bohmer and Eric Niyitunga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Suspicious: On Being Policed in an Anti-Black World Priscilla Layne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Hidden Places: The Indigenous Presence in My Affective Turn Ann Cvetkovich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
On Being Adjacent to the Nazi Disability Murder Project Dagmar Herzog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Sacrament versus Racism: Converted Jews in Nazi Germany Susannah Heschel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Buried Words, Exposed Connections Doris L. Bergen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Affiliative Adjacency and Generational Grief: Ruth Klüger, Ursula Mahlendorf, and the Passing of a Generation Erin McGlothlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Identity Freedom or On Choosing Who We Are Chunjie Zhang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Prisoner Experiences in Times of Crisis Christina Matzen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Borderlands Viktor Witkowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Part Two: Families
A Postcard to Zircz (Budapest, 1944) Susan Rubin Suleiman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Elsa Lost and Found Sylvia Flescher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
“Something Dreadful . . .” [Etwas Schreckliches . . .] Leo Spitzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
“Cares of a Family Man”: A Father’s Reflections on Odradek and the Holocaust Eric Kligerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Residual Remembrance: Family Genealogies and the Return of the Dead Karen Remmler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
The Unconcealed: Family Secrets as Family History Leslie Morris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
The Flesh of the Family Album: Black Pacific Visual Kinship Tao Leigh Goffe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
“And what about your mother?” Irene Kacandes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Nelly and Trudie: Deciphering a Transatlantic Family Holocaust Correspondence Bettina Brandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
I Thought She Was Old, But She Was Really My Age: Tracing Desperation and Resilience in My Grandmothers’ Letters from Berlin – Fragments Atina Grossmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
A Father, a Perpetrator, a Son Thomas Kühne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340
Part Three: Journeys
Looking for History, Finding a Life Angelika Bammer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
A Journey to Izbica and Sobibor Mark Roseman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Mrs. Kraus: A Short Story from a Central European Girlhood on the Run Grazyna Gross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
In Hopes of Failing Better: An Academic Afterlife; Or, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: On Altered Lives, Refuges, and Refugees Adam Zachary Newton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
“Is this really necessary?”: On Atrocity Images in the Classroom Brad Prager Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	420
The Affects of Reading Claudia Breger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
Falling Down on the Job/On Revulsion (November 2016–September 2020) Darcy Buerkle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	454
Tears and Empathy: Possible Methodologies for Studying Sexual Violence Mita Choudhury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
Blood, Boden and Belonging Leo Riegert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
Upended Alicia E. Ellis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	497
A Conversation (Spring 2021) Publicly Available Download PDF	514
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	545

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Historians; cultural studies scholars; psychologists; political activists
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 550
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 6
- Coloured Illustrations: 31
- Tables: 0
- Coloured Tables: 0
Keywords: Violence; Holocaust; 2020; Black diaspora

eBook

Published: December 6, 2021
ISBN: 9783110753295

Paperback

Published: December 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110753264