Remembering Histories of Trauma: North American Genocide and the Holocaust in Public Memory

Remembering Histories of Trauma: North American Genocide and the Holocaust in Public Memory
ISBN-10
1350240621
ISBN-13
9781350240629
Series
Remembering Histories of Trauma
Category
History
Pages
305
Language
English
Published
2022-04-21
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
Gideon Mailer

Description

Indigenous and Jewish worlds of trauma -- "Humanitarian feelings...crystallized in formulae of international law" : biological determinism and the problem of perpetrator intent -- "Metaphysical Jew hatred" and the "metaphysics of Indian-hating" : public memory and the problem of imperial power -- "We are waiting for the construction of our museum" : indigenous people, Jews, and the North Americanization of the Holocaust -- "The shrines of the soul of a nation" : traumatic memory, assimilation, and vanishing in North America -- "A permanent statement of our values" : indigenous genocide, the Holocaust, and European public memory -- "The void has made itself apparent as such" : placing group memory in public history.

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