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Bloomsbury Representing Genocide: The Holocaust as Paradigm? (Comparative Genocide)

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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 Holocausts 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 genocides ordinariness, and the structures and situations common to human society which contribute to and become involved in the violence.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1474256945
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Military History > War Crimes
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 02 June 2016
Listed Since: 15 August 2015

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