On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence / / ed. by Irene Kacandes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bammer, Angelika,; Bergen, Doris L.,; Bohmer, Carol,; Brandt, Bettina,; Breger, Claudia,; Buerkle, Darcy,; Choudhury, Mita,; Cvetkovich, Ann,; Ellis, Alicia E.,; Flescher, Sylvia,; Gross, Grazyna,; Grossmann, Atina,; Herzog, Dagmar,; Heschel, Susannah,; Hirsch, Marianne,; Kacandes, Irene,; Kligerman, Eric,; Kühne, Thomas,; Layne, Priscilla,; Leigh Goffe, Tao,; Matzen, Christina,; McGlothlin, Erin,; Morris, Leslie,; Niyitunga, Eric,; Prager, Brad,; Remmler, Karen,; Riegert, Leo,; Roseman, Mark,; Rubin Suleiman, Susan,; Shuman, Amy,; Spitzer, Leo,; Witkowski, Viktor,; Zachary Newton, Adam,; Zhang, Chunjie,
• HerausgeberIn: Kacandes, Irene,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 550 p.)

This book offers to academic and general public readers timely reflections about our relationships to violence. Taking cues from the self-reflexivity, themes, and subject matters of Holocaust, queer, and Black studies, this large group of diverse intellectuals wrestles with questions that connect pa...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence: Introduction
• Part One: Connections
• Debts
• Telling Our Own Stories and Speaking on Behalf of Others
• Suspicious: On Being Policed in an Anti-Black World
• Hidden Places: The Indigenous Presence in My Affective Turn
• On Being Adjacent to the Nazi Disability Murder Project
• Sacrament versus Racism: Converted Jews in Nazi Germany
• Buried Words, Exposed Connections
• Affiliative Adjacency and Generational Grief: Ruth Klüger, Ursula Mahlendorf, and the Passing of a Generation
• Identity Freedom or On Choosing Who We Are
• Prisoner Experiences in Times of Crisis
• Borderlands
• Part Two: Families
• A Postcard to Zircz (Budapest, 1944)
• Elsa Lost and Found
• “Something Dreadful . . .” [Etwas Schreckliches . . .]
• “Cares of a Family Man”: A Father’s Reflections on Odradek and the Holocaust
• Residual Remembrance: Family Genealogies and the Return of the Dead
• The Unconcealed: Family Secrets as Family History
• The Flesh of the Family Album: Black Pacific Visual Kinship
• “And what about your mother?”
• Nelly and Trudie: Deciphering a Transatlantic Family Holocaust Correspondence
• I Thought She Was Old, But She Was Really My Age: Tracing Desperation and Resilience in My Grandmothers’ Letters from Berlin – Fragments
• A Father, a Perpetrator, a Son
• Part Three: Journeys
• Looking for History, Finding a Life
• A Journey to Izbica and Sobibor
• Mrs. Kraus: A Short Story from a Central European Girlhood on the Run
• In Hopes of Failing Better: An Academic Afterlife; Or, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: On Altered Lives, Refuges, and Refugees
• “Is this really necessary?”: On Atrocity Images in the Classroom
• The Affects of Reading
• Falling Down on the Job/On Revulsion (November 2016–September 2020)
• Tears and Empathy: Possible Methodologies for Studying Sexual Violence
• Blood, Boden and Belonging
• Upended
• A Conversation (Spring 2021)
• Notes on Contributors