Reading the Holocaust
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- Author: Inga Clendinnen, La Trobe University, Victoria
- Date Published: May 2002
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521012690
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The events of the Holocaust remain unthinkable to many men and women, as morally and intellectually baffling today as they were a half century ago. Inga Clendinnen seeks to dispel what she calls the "Gorgon effect:" the sickening of imagination and the draining of the will that afflict so many of us when we try to confront the horrors of this history. Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view. She discusses the remarkable survivor testimonies of writers such as Primo Levi and Charlotte Delbo, the vexing issue of "resistance" in the camps, and survivors' strategies for understanding the motivations of the Nazi leadership. She focuses an anthropologist's precise gaze on the actions of the murderers in the police battalions and among the SS in the camps. Finally she considers how the Holocaust has been portrayed in poetry, fiction, and film. A Prize-winning archaeologist, anthropologist and historian of ancient Mexican cultures, Inga Clendinnen has spent most of her teaching career at La Trobe University in Bundoora, Australia. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan (Cambridge, 1989) and Aztecs: An Interpretation (Cambridge, 1995) are two of her best-known scholarly works; Tiger's Eye: A Memoir, (Scribner, 2001) describes her battle against liver cancer.
Read more- A new perspective to Holocaust studies
- A wide-ranging, accessible, often moving study, written in elegant, jargon-free prose
- Original hardback edition won the Premier's Award for General History in New South Wales
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"Reading the Holocaust, is not, despite its somewhat generic title, just another book about the Holocaust....this is an important, insightful, superbly written meditation on a sorrow beyond words, well worth the attention of outsiders and insiders alike." New York Times Book Review
See more reviews"Reading the Holocaust is an excellent introduction to Holocaust studies and a lucid, morally stringent reflection on genocide."
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- Date Published: May 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521012690
- length: 238 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 138 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.288kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Beginning
2. Impediments
Part I. Victims:
3. Witnessing
4. Resisting
Part II. Perpetrators:
5. Defining: inside the grey zone: the Auschwitz Sonderkommando
6. Leaders
7. The men in the green tunics: the order police in Poland
8. The Auschwitz SS
9. Representing the Holocaust.
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