Chapter 8 Not seeing Auschwitz
We are reaching a point in history when the generation who experienced the Holocaust as survivors, witnesses or exiles will soon disappear. What happens to our relationship to such a momentous event in global history when our living connection with such a past is broken? To answer this question,...
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| description | We are reaching a point in history when the generation who
experienced the Holocaust as survivors, witnesses or exiles will
soon disappear. What happens to our relationship to such a
momentous event in global history when our living connection
with such a past is broken? To answer this question, this article
will explore recent French representations of the Holocaust
through the comic book. It will approach such representations
from the perspective of the grandchildren of those who were
affected by the Holocaust, perhaps the last generation to have
personal ties to this wartime past. It will focus specifically on
Jérémie Dres’s Nous n’irons pas voir Auschwitz (2011), translated as
We Won’t Go and See Auschwitz. As a “third generation” narrative,
Dres’s work is attentive to stories of Jewish exile and loss to be
found on the margins of Holocaust histories. This perspective
translates into an openness towards transnational histories of the
Holocaust; a recognition of place as a substitute for living memory
and an awareness of comics’ potential to innovate in the
transmission of Holocaust memories. Ultimately, this article will
argue that the contemporary comic book acts as a privileged
vehicle of remembrance, indicative of the reordering of Holocaust
representations in an age of cultural memory. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-393162025-03-04T09:50:55Z Chapter 8 Not seeing Auschwitz Gorrara, Claire Holocaust twenty-first century french comics Auschwitz concentration camp Comic book France Graphic novel Jérémie Jews Poland The Holocaust Warsaw thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History We are reaching a point in history when the generation who experienced the Holocaust as survivors, witnesses or exiles will soon disappear. What happens to our relationship to such a momentous event in global history when our living connection with such a past is broken? To answer this question, this article will explore recent French representations of the Holocaust through the comic book. It will approach such representations from the perspective of the grandchildren of those who were affected by the Holocaust, perhaps the last generation to have personal ties to this wartime past. It will focus specifically on Jérémie Dres’s Nous n’irons pas voir Auschwitz (2011), translated as We Won’t Go and See Auschwitz. As a “third generation” narrative, Dres’s work is attentive to stories of Jewish exile and loss to be found on the margins of Holocaust histories. This perspective translates into an openness towards transnational histories of the Holocaust; a recognition of place as a substitute for living memory and an awareness of comics’ potential to innovate in the transmission of Holocaust memories. Ultimately, this article will argue that the contemporary comic book acts as a privileged vehicle of remembrance, indicative of the reordering of Holocaust representations in an age of cultural memory. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-09-03 23:55 2019-10-17 14:57:14 2020-04-01T12:32:07Z 2018 chapter 1000379 OCN: 1051778721 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29554 9781138598645 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39316 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29554/1/9781138598645_oachapter8.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29554/1/9781138598645_oachapter8.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29554/1/9781138598645_oachapter8.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29554/1/9781138598645_oachapter8.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust 9781138598645 Routledge 17 open access |
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