Author : Isabelle Engelhardt
Publisher : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis A Topography of Memory by : Isabelle Engelhardt
Download or read book A Topography of Memory written by Isabelle Engelhardt and published by P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an analysis of the history of various sorts of representation, chiefly memorials, on the site of the concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald in comparison with Auschwitz, Yad Vashem and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. By providing a reconstruction of the history and debates surrounding the question of memorializing and forgetting, it interrogates the question of how to represent the unrepresentable. It draws on Freudian analysis, the literature on sites of memory, and the debate about writing about the Holocaust, showing clearly how the camps have been and still remain highly contested places of memory and arguing that these debates and their physical embodiment on the sites have to be incorporated in our understanding of what these places represent. --from publisher description.