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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes sensationalized Nazi and Holocaust representations in Anglo-American cultural and political discourses. Recognizing that this history is increasingly removed from contemporary life, it explains how irreverent representations can help rejuvenate the story for successive generations of new learners. Surveying seventy-five-years of transatlantic activities, the work erects counterposing categorizes of “constructive and destructive memorializing,” providing scholars with a new framework for elucidating both this history and its historicization.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Nuremberg Narrative: Fashioning a Liberalized Anglo-American Holocaust MemorializationChapter 3: The Americanization of the Holocaust: Expressions of Cultural and Political MemorializationChapter 4: Why All the Swastikas?: UK Rock Stars’ Nazi/Holocaust Encounters, 1960s-1980sChapter 5: No Soup For You!: Responsible and Irresponsible Holocaust Humor on American SitcomsChapter 6: Irreverent Instruction: Considering New Approaches in Twenty-First Century European and American Holocaust EducationChapter 7: That is Really Meme: Nazifying Pepe the Frog and the Subversion of Anglo-American Holocaust MemorializationChapter 8: Conclusion
