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The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical memories that discomfit a public's self-understanding, this book proposes the historical uncanny as that which resists reification precisely because it cannot be assimilated to dominant discourses of commemoration. Focusing on the problems of representation and reception, the book explores memorials for two marginalized aspects of Holocaust: the Nazi euthanasia program directed against the mentally ill and disabled and the Fascist persecution of Slovenes, Croats, and Jews in and around Trieste. Reading these memorials together with literary and artistic texts, Knittel redefines "sites of memory" as assemblages of cultural artifacts and discourses that accumulate over time; they emerge as a physical and a cultural space that is continually redefined, rewritten, and re-presented. In bringing perspectives from disability studies and postcolonialism to the question of memory, Knittel unsettles our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the culture of contemporary Europe.--Provided by publisher.

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Warum gehen manche Geschehnisse in die Geschichte einer Nation ein? Warum werden andere vergessen oder gar unterdrückt? Und wie und warum kommen diese wieder zum Vorschein? Susanne C. Knittel analysiert verdrängte Aspekte des Zweiten Weltkrieges und des Holocausts in den Erinnerungskulturen Deutschlands und Italiens nach 1945. Diese tauchen beharrlich auf und stören den dominanten Erinnerungsdiskurs, dessen Gedenkrituale und etablierte Vorstellungen: die NS-»Euthanasie« einerseits und die Verbrechen des italienischen Faschismus sowie die Kollaboration mit den deutschen Besatzern andererseits. Durch eine vergleichende Betrachtung von Gedenkstätten sowie künstlerischen und literarischen Darstellungen, die diesen Verbrechen und ihren Opfern gewidmet sind, entsteht ein zwiespältiges Porträt der Holocausterinnerung in Europa. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Eva Engels, Elisabeth Heeke und Susanne C. Knittel. O-Ton: »Ein intensives Gefühl von unheimlicher Geschichte« - Interview mit Susanne C. Kittel auf L.I.S.A. Wisseschaftsportal der Gerda Henkel Stiftung am 02.07.2019. Besprochen in: http://www.helmut-a-mueller.de, 14.07.2018 Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken,98 (2018/19), Costanza D'Elia Reutlinger Generalanzeiger, 12.10.2019, Julie-Sabine Geiger

Erinnerungskultur; Holocaust; Zweiter Weltkrieg; Faschismus; NS-»Euthanasie«; Kollaboration; Gedenkstätten; Grafeneck; Triest; Eugenik; Täter; Deutschland; Italien; Literatur; Kulturgeschichte; Behinderung; Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts; Kulturwissenschaft; Memory Culture; Second World War; Fascism; Collaboration; Memorial Sites; Trieste; Eugenics; Germany; Italy; Literature; Cultural History; Disability Studies; History of the 20th Century; Cultural Studies --- Collaboration. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Studies. --- Disability Studies. --- Eugenics. --- Fascism. --- Germany. --- History of the 20th Century. --- Holocaust. --- Italy. --- Literature. --- Memorial Sites. --- Second World War. --- Trieste.

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