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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786207003321

Autore

Lawson Tom

Titolo

Debates on the Holocaust [[electronic resource] /] / Tom Lawson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-7190-7449-5

1-84779-321-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

Issues in Historiography

Issues in historiography

Classificazione

15.70

8

8,1

Disciplina

940.5318072

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-317) and index.

Nota di contenuto

'The Theory and Practice of Hell': post-war interpretations of the genocide of the Jews -- 'Eichmann in Jerusalem': war crimes prosecutions and the emergence of Holocaust metanarratives -- 'The Deputy': bystanders to the Holocaust -- 'The Realisation of the Unthinkable': searching for the origins of the 'Final Solution' -- 'National Socialist Extermination Policies': the end of the Cold War and the breakdown of Holocaust metanarratives -- 'Ordinary Men': rethinking the politics of perpetrator history -- 'Like Sheep to Slaughter': debates on Jewish responses to Nazism -- 'Holocaust Testimonies': the ruins of memory and Holocaust historiography.

Sommario/riassunto

Debates on the Holocaust is the first attempt to survey the development of Holocaust historiography for a generation. It analyses the development of history writing on the destruction of the European Jews from just before the end of the Second World War to the present day, and argues forcefully that history writing is as much about the present as it is the past. The book guides the reader through the major debates in Holocaust historiography and shows how all of these controversies are as much products of their own time as they are attempts to uncover the past.Debates on the Holocaust will



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910482977403321

Autore

Gibson Janet

Titolo

Dementia, Narrative and Performance : Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities / / by Janet Gibson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030465476

3030465470

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 298 p. 5 illus.)

Disciplina

792.019

301

Soggetti

Performing arts

Theater

Theater - History

Social service

Theatre and Performance Arts

Contemporary Theatre and Performance

Applied Theatre

Social Care

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. My Mother's Story, My Story -- Part I. Dementia, Identity and Narrative -- 2. Recasting Senility: The Genesis of the 'Right Kind' of Dementia Story -- 3. Narrative Regimes -- Part II. Dementia in Performance -- 4. Staging the 'Reality' of Dementia -- 5. Staging Dementia Voices in Australia: Missing the Bus to David Jones, Theatre Kantanka, and Sundowner, KAGE -- 6. Mapping Applied Performance in Dementia Cultures -- 7. "I Don't Want to Disappear": Dementia and Public Autobiographical Performance -- Part III. Dementia as Performance -- 8. Rehearsing a Theory of Dementia as Performance -- 9. Revisiting My Mother's Story, My Story.

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing mainly on case studies from Australia and the United States of America, this book considers how people with dementia represent themselves and are represented in 'theatre of the real' productions and



care home interventions, assessing the extent to which the 'right kind' of dementia story is being affirmed or challenged. It argues that this type of story - one of tragedy, loss of personhood, biomedical deficit, and socio-economic 'crisis - produces dementia and the people living with it, as much as biology does. It proposes two novel ideas. One is that the 'gaze' of theatre and performance offers a reframing of some of the behaviours and actions of people with dementia, through which deficit views can be changed to ones of possibility. The other is that, conversely,dementia offers productive perspectives on 'theatre of the real'. Scanning contemporary critical studies about and practices of 'theatre of the real' performances and applied theatre interventions, the book probes what it means when certain 'theatre of the real' practices (specifically verbatim and autobiographical) interact with storytellers considered, culturally, to be 'unreliable narrators'. It also explores whether autobiographical theatre is useful in reinforcing a sense of 'self' for those deemed no longer to have one. With a focus on therelationship between stories and selves, the book investigates how selves might be rethought so that they are not contingent on the production of lucid self-narratives, consistent language, and truthful memories.