LEADER 03975nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910781362103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0563-6 010 $a0-8014-6033-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460333 035 $a(CKB)2550000000035269 035 $a(OCoLC)732957112 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468027 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000534262 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11382330 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534262 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10492068 035 $a(PQKB)10772280 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001660729 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28755 035 $a(DE-B1597)480106 035 $a(OCoLC)979833555 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460333 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138148 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468027 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL978653 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138148 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000035269 100 $a20100604d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAversion and erasure$b[electronic resource] $ethe fate of the victim after the Holocaust /$fCarolyn J. Dean 210 $aIthaca, N.Y. $cCornell University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (203 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-5017-0749-3 311 $a0-8014-4944-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : victims, suffering, identity -- The surfeit of Jewish memory -- French discourses on exorbitant Jewish memory -- Minimalism and victim testimony -- Erasures. 330 $aIn Aversion and Erasure, Carolyn J. Dean offers a bold account of how the Holocaust's status as humanity's most terrible example of evil has shaped contemporary discourses about victims in the West. Popular and scholarly attention to the Holocaust has led some observers to conclude that a "surfeit of Jewish memory" is obscuring the suffering of other peoples. Dean explores the pervasive idea that suffering and trauma in the United States and Western Europe have become central to identity, with victims competing for recognition by displaying their collective wounds.She argues that this notion has never been examined systematically even though it now possesses the force of self-evidence. It developed in nascent form after World War II, when the near-annihilation of European Jewry began to transform patriotic mourning into a slogan of "Never Again": as the Holocaust demonstrated, all people might become victims because of their ethnicity, race, gender, or sexuality-because of who they are.The recent concept that suffering is central to identity and that Jewish suffering under Nazism is iconic of modern evil has dominated public discourse since the 1980s.Dean argues that we believe that the rational contestation of grievances in democratic societies is being replaced by the proclamation of injury and the desire to be a victim. Such dramatic and yet culturally powerful assertions, however, cast suspicion on victims and define their credibility in new ways that require analysis. Dean's latest book summons anyone concerned with human rights to recognize the impact of cultural ideals of "deserving" and "undeserving" victims on those who have suffered. 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xInfluence 606 $aVictims 606 $aCollective memory 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xInfluence. 615 0$aVictims. 615 0$aCollective memory. 676 $a940.53/1814 700 $aDean$b Carolyn J$g(Carolyn Janice),$f1960-$01131464 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781362103321 996 $aAversion and erasure$93835508 997 $aUNINA