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Title

Representing genocide : the Holocaust as paradigm? / Rebecca Jinks.

Author

Jinks, Rebecca

Publication

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

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Description

269 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "This book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust representations have influenced and structured how other genocides are understood and represented in the West. Rebecca Jinks focuses in particular on the canonical 20th century cases of genocide: Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Using literature, film, photography, and memorialisation, she demonstrates that we can only understand the Holocaust's status as a 'benchmark' for other genocides if we look at the deeper, structural resonances which subtly shape many representations of genocide. Representing Genocide pursues five thematic areas in turn: how genocides are recognised as such by western publics; the representation of the origins and perpetrators of genocide; how western witnesses represent genocide; representations of the aftermath of genocide; and western responses to genocide. Throughout, the book distinguishes between 'mainstream' and other, more nuanced and engaged, representations of genocide. It shows how these mainstream representations -- the majority -- largely replicate the representational framework of the Holocaust, including the way in which mainstream Holocaust representations resist recognising the rationality, instrumentality and normality of genocide, preferring instead to present it as an aberrant, exceptional event in human society. By contrast, the more engaged representations -- often, but not always, originating from those who experienced genocide -- tend to revolve around precisely genocide's ordinariness, and the structures and situations common to human society which contribute to and become involved in the violence"--
• "Analyses the historical and cultural representation of the Armenian, Cambodian, Bosnian and Rwandan genocides and the impact of the Holocaust"--

Series Statement

Comparative Genocide

Subject

• Genocide > History
• Genocide in mass media
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recognising Genocide: The 'Genocidal Imaginary' -- 3. Explaining Genocide: Representations of the Origins and Perpetrators of Genocide -- 4. Witnessing Genocide: Western Protagonists in the Theatre of Genocide -- 5. Resolving Genocide: Representations of the Aftermath -- 6. Responding to Genocide: Attitudes and Platitudes -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 16-10102

ISBN

• 9781474256940
• 1474256945

LCCN

• 2015043349
• 60002107420

OCLC

932116083

Author

Jinks, Rebecca, author.

Title

Representing genocide : the Holocaust as paradigm? / Rebecca Jinks.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Comparative Genocide

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60002107420

Research Call Number

JFE 16-10102