Troping the Holocaust, globalizing trauma?
TitleTroping the Holocaust, globalizing trauma?
Author
Call number700.458405318/0001
Object number09103m
Place of publicationHeidelberg, Germany
PublisherUniversitatsverlag Winter
Year of publication
2010
Physical descriptionpp227-247
MaterialArticle
Series titleAmerican studies ; v. 189
ISBN9783825357344
NotesArticle from the book 'The Holocaust, art, and taboo : transatlantic exchanges on the ethics and aesthetics of representation' pp227-247
Description
The term 'trauma' has become one of the key terms in the analysis and interpretation of contemporary politics and culture. Sielke attributes the proliferation of the term Holocaust in American culture to an acknowledgement and reconsideration of American trauma and investigates how the term functions in this process
