Format:
547 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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21 cm x 13.5 cm
ISBN:
3825365484
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9783825365486
Series Statement:
Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte Band 347
Content:
In spite of the incommensurability of the Holocaust and the dropping of the first atomic bombs, the juxtaposition of Auschwitz and Hiroshima has long been a topic of serious debate. However, the fact that the interpretation of the two events in Eastern Europe differed considerably from the Western angle was largely neglected. While in Western thinking, both Auschwitz and Hiroshima were often seen as ruptures that shook the foundations of civilization, in communist Eastern Europe the concept of rupture was either ignored or dismissed as Western defeatism. In their contributions, international scholars investigate the perception of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern Europe from a wide range of disciplines. The volume presents a complex picture of the divides and intersections between different cultures of commemoration, including American and Japanese responses to Auschwitz and Hiroshima
Content:
Introduction -- part 1. Between east and west: Auschwitz and Hiroshima in American, German, and Japanese perspectives. The Hiroshima-Auschwitz peace march and the globalization of the "moral witness" / Ran Zwigenberg -- Hiroshima and Auschwitz: analyzing from the perspectives of peace movements and pacifism / Makiko Takemoto -- Domesticating Hiroshima in America in the early Cold War / Robert Jacobs -- Hiroshima, Topaz, Dachau, and Nanjing: Japanese-American writers on World War II / Bettina Hofmann -- part 2. Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern European perspective: Soviet Union. Breach of civilization? Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Soviet historiography / Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal -- From The Shtetl to The Flowers of Auschwitz and black. The creation, reception, and destiny of Zinovii Tolkachev's art / Mirjam Rajner -- Appendix 1. Pictures, drawings and photographs -- "Abel, Abel, where is your brother Cain?" Vasilii Grossman on Auschwitz and Hiroshima (read against the context of official Soviet literature: E. Dolmatovskii, R. Kim) / Bettina Kaibach -- The politicization of the bomb in post-war Soviet poetry / Christoph Garstka -- Hiroshima and Artek / Renata von Maydell -- part 3. Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern European perspective: Poland. "Apocalypse was routine." Representations of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Polish poetry / Marlene Bainczyk-Crescentini -- Mechanisms of dissociation . Auschwitz and Hiroshima in the functional writing of Stanisław Lem / Karoline Thaidigsmann -- The Holocaust in museum exhibitions. "The primer" at the State Museum of Majdanek / Anna Ziębińska-Witek -- part 4. Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern European perspective: Czechoslovakia. Distant Journey and Krakatit. Propagandistic and experienced truth about the Holocaust and Hiroshima in early Czechoslovak post-war cinema / Friederike Gürbig -- "When Goethe's oak dies, the German Reich will fall." Concentration camps in the writings of Czech political prisoners / Zuzana Jürgens -- Hiroshima in Czech press and poetry / Urs Heftrich -- part 5. Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern European perspective: Yugoslavia and its successor states. Neither love, nor hate. The nuclear bomb and Tito's Yugoslavia / Tvrtko Jakovina -- Aleksandar Tišma's "Pentateuch." An attempt to comprehend evil / Vesna Cidilko -- The concentration camp on the River Sava. What remains afterwards? / Zrinka Božić Blanuša -- Auschwitz in contemporary Serbian literature. David Albahari's Götz and Meyer (1998): circular structure as a means of expressing rupture / Cristina Beretta -- part 6. The challenge of representation: Approaches to Auschwitz and Hiroshima in philosophy and the arts. Hiroshima, Holocaust: the names of disaster between ethics and philosophy / Dragan Kujundžić -- Untraditional images of Auschwitz in literature / Jiří Holý -- Of victims and perpetrators. Montage as aesthetic subversion, provocation, and reflection in Alfréd Radok's Distant Journey, Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour, and Sidney' Lumet's The Pawnbroker / Veronika Ambros -- Controlling the images and the limits of control. East European film facing two catastrophes / Oksana Bulgakowa -- Appendix 2: Film stills -- Appendix 3. List of Eastern European holocaust films -- Sul ponte di Hiroshima. Music against the collapse of civilization / Dorothea Redepenning -- Appendix 4. Text of A Survivor from Warsaw -- Appendix 5. Compositions on the Holocaust and the atomic bombing
Note:
"Conference, entitled "Images of ruptures in civilization between East and West. The iconography of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern European arts and media" (Bilder des Zivilisationsbruchs zwischen Ost und West. Die Ikonographie von Auschwitz und Hiroshima in den Künsten und der Publizistik Osteuropas), was hosted by Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg from 26-29 May 2011. All essays included in this volume, with the exception of Tvrtko Jakovina's contribution, were originally presented at the Heidelberg conference." - Introduction, Seite 11
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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Slavic Studies
Keywords:
Judenvernichtung
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Atombombenabwurf auf Hiroshima
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Rezeption
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Künste
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Massenmedien
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Osteuropa
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Geschichte 1945-2000
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Konzentrationslager Auschwitz
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Atombombenabwurf auf Hiroshima
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Heftrich, Urs 1961-
Author information:
Kaibach, Bettina 1963-
Author information:
Thaidigsmann, Karoline 1976-
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