Description
Book SynopsisConsiders how we remember historical instances of suffering and atrocity, framing its central questions to show larger cultural shifts in how we position ourselves in relation to history, performance, and memory.
Trade Review"This is the first extended study I know of what the author calls a 'Holocaust performative'...[The author] asks what a 'holocaust performative' might look like and how such a study might illuminate 'events of this particular genocide that are unrepresentable and outside the parameters of representation itself' ...[Patraka] contributes an important and possibly contentious dimension to Holocaust studies." -- James Young
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Shattered Cartographies: Fascism, the Holocaust, and Tropes about Representation
2. Reproduction, Appropriation, and Binary Machinery: Fascist Ideology and Theatricalization
3. Feminism and the Jewish Subject: Holocaust Theatre and the Politics of Difference and Identity
4. Realism, Gender, and Historical Crisis: Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine and "Julia"
5. Theatre of Injury and Injustice: Staging the Body in Pain
6. Spectacular Suffering: Performing Presence, Absence, and Witness at U.S. Holocaust Museums
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