LEADER 03916nam 22006371 450 001 9910798362103321 005 20151211130450.0 010 $a1-4742-5697-X 010 $a1-4742-5696-1 010 $a1-4742-5695-3 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474256971 035 $a(CKB)3710000000666890 035 $a(EBL)4527216 035 $a(OCoLC)949885473 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001668176 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16457797 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001668176 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14853205 035 $a(PQKB)11061923 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4527216 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09259924 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6164715 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000666890 100 $a20160601d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRepresenting genocide $ethe Holocaust as paradigm? /$fRebecca Jinks 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 0 $aComparative Genocide 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4742-5693-7 311 $a1-4742-5694-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recognising Genocide: The 'Genocidal Imaginary' -- 3. Explaining Genocide: Representations of the Origins and Perpetrators of Genocide -- 4. Witnessing Genocide: Western Protagonists in the Theatre of Genocide -- 5. Resolving Genocide: Representations of the Aftermath -- 6. Responding to Genocide: Attitudes and Platitudes -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"This book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust representations have influenced and structured how other genocides are understood and represented in the West. Rebecca Jinks focuses in particular on the canonical 20th century cases of genocide: Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Using literature, film, photography, and memorialisation, she demonstrates that we can only understand the Holocaust's status as a 'benchmark' for other genocides if we look at the deeper, structural resonances which subtly shape many representations of genocide. Representing Genocide pursues five thematic areas in turn: how genocides are recognised as such by western publics; the representation of the origins and perpetrators of genocide; how western witnesses represent genocide; representations of the aftermath of genocide; and western responses to genocide. Throughout, the book distinguishes between 'mainstream' and other, more nuanced and engaged, representations of genocide. It shows how these mainstream representations -- the majority -- largely replicate the representational framework of the Holocaust, including the way in which mainstream Holocaust representations resist recognising the rationality, instrumentality and normality of genocide, preferring instead to present it as an aberrant, exceptional event in human society. By contrast, the more engaged representations -- often, but not always, originating from those who experienced genocide -- tend to revolve around precisely genocide's ordinariness, and the structures and situations common to human society which contribute to and become involved in the violence."--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aComparative genocide. 606 $aGenocide in mass media 606 $aGenocide$xHistory 606 $aHolocaust 606 $2General & world history 615 0$aGenocide in mass media. 615 0$aGenocide$xHistory. 615 0$aHolocaust. 676 $a364.15/1 686 $aHIS043000$aHIS037070$2bisacsh 700 $aJinks$b Rebecca$01480811 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798362103321 996 $aRepresenting genocide$93697585 997 $aUNINA