Troping the Holocaust, globalizing trauma?
TitreTroping the Holocaust, globalizing trauma?
Auteur
Call number700.458405318/0001
N° d'objet09103m
Lieu de publicationHeidelberg, Germany
EditeurUniversitatsverlag Winter
Année de publication
2010
Paginationpp227-247
MatérielArticle
SérieAmerican 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