- Summary
- 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.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
- Contents
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On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence: Introduction / Irene Kacandes
PART ONE: CONNECTIONS : Debts / Marianne Hirsch
Telling Our Own Stories and Speaking on Behalf of Others / Amy Shuman, Carol Bohmer and Eric Niyitunga
Suspicious: On Being Policed in an Anti-Black World / Priscilla Layne
Hidden Places: The Indigenous Presence in My Affective Turn / Ann Cvetkovich
On Being Adjacent to the Nazi Disability Murder Project / Dagmar Herzog
Sacrament versus Racism: Converted Jews in Nazi Germany / Susannah Heschel
Buried Words, Exposed Connections / Doris L. Bergen
Affiliative Adjacency and Generational Grief: Ruth Klüger, Ursula Mahlendorf, and the Passing of a Generation / Erin McGlothlin
Identity Freedom or On Choosing Who We Are / Chunjie Zhang
Prisoner Experiences in Times of Crisis / Christina Matzen
Borderlands / Viktor Witkowski
PART TWO: FAMILIES : A Postcard to Zircz (Budapest, 1944) / Susan Rubin Suleiman
Elsa Lost and Found / Sylvia Flescher
"Something Dreadful . . ." [Etwas Schreckliches . . .] / Leo Spitzer
"Cares of a Family Man": A Father's Reflections on Odradek and the Holocaust / Eric Kligerman
Residual Remembrance: Family Genealogies and the Return of the Dead / Karen Remmler
The Unconcealed: Family Secrets as Family History / Leslie Morris
The Flesh of the Family Album: Black Pacific Visual Kinship / Tao Leigh Goffe
"And what about your mother?" / Irene Kacandes
Nelly and Trudie: Deciphering a Transatlantic Family Holocaust Correspondence / Bettina Brandt
I Thought She Was Old, But She Was Really My Age: Tracing Desperation and Resilience in My Grandmothers' Letters from Berlin - Fragments / Atina Grossmann
A Father, a Perpetrator, a Son / Thomas Kuhne
PART THREE: JOURNEYS : Looking for History, Finding a Life / Angelika Bammer
A Journey to Izbica and Sobibor / Mark Roseman
Mrs. Kraus: A Short Story from a Central European Girlhood on the Run / Grazyna Gross
In Hopes of Failing Better: An Academic Afterlife; Or, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: On Altered Lives, Refuges, and Refugees / Adam Zachary Newton
"Is this really necessary?": On Atrocity Images in the Classroom / Brad Prager
The Affects of Reading / Claudia Breger
Falling Down on the Job/On Revulsion (November 2016-September 2020) / Darcy Buerkle
Tears and Empathy: Possible Methodologies for Studying Sexual Violence / Mita Choudhury
Blood, Boden and Belonging / Leo Riegert
Upended / Alicia E. Ellis.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kacandes, Irene, 1958- editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references.
On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence: Introduction / Irene Kacandes -- PART ONE: CONNECTIONS : Debts / Marianne Hirsch -- Telling Our Own Stories and Speaking on Behalf of Others / Amy Shuman, Carol Bohmer and Eric Niyitunga -- Suspicious: On Being Policed in an Anti-Black World / Priscilla Layne -- Hidden Places: The Indigenous Presence in My Affective Turn / Ann Cvetkovich -- On Being Adjacent to the Nazi Disability Murder Project / Dagmar Herzog -- Sacrament versus Racism: Converted Jews in Nazi Germany / Susannah Heschel -- Buried Words, Exposed Connections / Doris L. Bergen -- Affiliative Adjacency and Generational Grief: Ruth Klüger, Ursula Mahlendorf, and the Passing of a Generation / Erin McGlothlin -- Identity Freedom or On Choosing Who We Are / Chunjie Zhang -- Prisoner Experiences in Times of Crisis / Christina Matzen -- Borderlands / Viktor Witkowski -- PART TWO: FAMILIES : A Postcard to Zircz (Budapest, 1944) / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Elsa Lost and Found / Sylvia Flescher -- "Something Dreadful . . ." [Etwas Schreckliches . . .] / Leo Spitzer -- "Cares of a Family Man": A Father's Reflections on Odradek and the Holocaust / Eric Kligerman -- Residual Remembrance: Family Genealogies and the Return of the Dead / Karen Remmler -- The Unconcealed: Family Secrets as Family History / Leslie Morris -- The Flesh of the Family Album: Black Pacific Visual Kinship / Tao Leigh Goffe -- "And what about your mother?" / Irene Kacandes -- Nelly and Trudie: Deciphering a Transatlantic Family Holocaust Correspondence / Bettina Brandt -- I Thought She Was Old, But She Was Really My Age: Tracing Desperation and Resilience in My Grandmothers' Letters from Berlin - Fragments / Atina Grossmann -- A Father, a Perpetrator, a Son / Thomas Kuhne -- PART THREE: JOURNEYS : Looking for History, Finding a Life / Angelika Bammer -- A Journey to Izbica and Sobibor / Mark Roseman -- Mrs. Kraus: A Short Story from a Central European Girlhood on the Run / Grazyna Gross -- In Hopes of Failing Better: An Academic Afterlife; Or, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: On Altered Lives, Refuges, and Refugees / Adam Zachary Newton -- "Is this really necessary?": On Atrocity Images in the Classroom / Brad Prager -- The Affects of Reading / Claudia Breger -- Falling Down on the Job/On Revulsion (November 2016-September 2020) / Darcy Buerkle -- Tears and Empathy: Possible Methodologies for Studying Sexual Violence / Mita Choudhury -- Blood, Boden and Belonging / Leo Riegert -- Upended / Alicia E. Ellis.
