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New Geographies, New Subjects, and the New Media in Holocaust Studies. A Companion to the Holocaust
Aleksandra Ubertowska
aleksandra.ubertowska@ug.edu.pl BioLiterary scholar, lectures on the history of contemporary Polish literature at the University of Gdańsk. She specializes in research on Holocaust literature and art, studies on memory, and studies in the field of eco-criticism. She is the author of several dozen books and articles in Polish and international journals and volumes, incl. the monograph Świadectwo, trauma, głos. Literackie reprezentacje Holokaustu (Kraków 2007), Holokaust. Auto(tanato)grafie (2014), Historie biotyczne. Pomiędzy estetyką a geotraumą (2019).
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6465-321X
University of Gdańsk
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 17 (2021), pages: 673-681
Publication date: 2021-12-20
Abstract
This article is a review of A Companion to the Holocaust – a collective work edited by Simone Gigliotti and Hilary Earl, which includes essays by Devin Pendas, Joanna Michlic, Aomar Boum, Tim Cole, and others. The author of the article situates the reviewed publication in a broader context of phenomena such as the ‘era of the post-witness’, the performative turn in Holocaust studies, the dominance of audiovisual media in memory, and post-memory of the Holocaust. The review reconstructs key areas of the subject matter discussed in the essays and divides them according to their main topic, such as, ‘new geographies’ and ‘new subjects’ in Holocaust studies and the role of the new media in Holocaust memory.
Keywords
Holocaust, new media, memory, postmemory
References
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A Companion to the Holocaust, red. Simone Gigliotti, Hilary Earl, Hobocken: Wiley-Blackwell 2020.
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