Polychronicon: Postmodern Holocaust Historiography?

[...] he sidesteps the heroization of Holocaust survivors, which has played an important role in the construction of the Holocaust paradigm since the 1970s, while expressing a great deal of respect for the victims of the Nazi genocide.5 Thus, on a number of different levels, Friedländer's book...

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Published in:Teaching history (London) 2009-06 (135), p.46
Main Author: Kansteiner, Wulf
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alienation
Antisemitism
Diaries
Earthquakes
Fashion models
Ghettos
Historiography
Holocaust
Ideology
Jewish people
Jews
Resistance (Psychology)
Victims of Crime
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Summary:[...] he sidesteps the heroization of Holocaust survivors, which has played an important role in the construction of the Holocaust paradigm since the 1970s, while expressing a great deal of respect for the victims of the Nazi genocide.5 Thus, on a number of different levels, Friedländer's book is a narrative performance at the threshold of history and memory written by one of foremost experts in the field who is himself a victim of Nazi persecution.6 Finally, The Years of Extermination is the product of extensive theoretical discussions about the nature and limits of historical writing which have been conducted amongst historians and historical theorists in response to the linguistic turn of the 1970s. Friedländer invented a new narrative format for the writing of history which integrates academic historiography with elements of contemporary visual culture. [...] more importantly, he cast seemingly conventional historical prose into a decidedly dispersive narrative structure with the result of crafting an ethical intervention of exceptional importance.
ISSN:0040-0610
2398-1571