Holocaust vs. Popular Culture

Interrogating Incompatibility and Universalization
Herausgeber: Mandal, Mahitosh; Das, Priyanka

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Produktbeschreibung

Holocaust vs. Popular Culture debates and deconstructs the binary responses to the representation of the Holocaust in European and non-European forms of Popular Culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781032169736
• ISBN-10: 1032169737
• Artikelnr.: 67824800

Autorenporträt

Mahitosh Mandal is Assistant Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. Priyanka Das is Assistant Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Holocaust versus Popular Culture: A Critical Introduction Part One:
Explicating Incompatibility 1. Popular Fiction, Literary Culture, and
Artistic Truth: Thane Rosenbaum's The Golems of Gotham and Twenty-First
Century Holocaust Representation 2. Playing with the Unspeakable: The
Holocaust and Videogames 3. Representation, Appropriation, and Popular
Culture: Food and the Holocaust in Roman Polanski's The Pianist 4. Nazi
Linguistics and Mass Manipulation: An Analysis of Holocaust Primary Sources
vis-à-vis Popular Culture Part Two: Rethinking Universalization 5. Hitler's
Popularity and the Trivialization of the Holocaust in India 6. Decoding
Holocaust Narratives in Japanese Pop Culture: Through the Lens of Anne no
Nikki (1995) and Persona Non Grata (2015) 7. Holocaust Representations
through Popular Music: Ferramonti di Tarsia amidst Documentation,
Commemoration and Mystification 8. Holocaust Museums: A Study of the Memory
Policies of the USA and Poland 9. Trace and Trauma: Early Holocaust
Remembrance in American and Canadian Popular Culture Part Three: In Defence
of Popular Culture 10. Mothers, Daughters and the Holocaust: A Study of
Miriam Katin's Graphic Memoirs 11. Superheroes and the Holocaust in
American Comics 12. Unearthing the Real in the Magical: Holocaust Memory
and Magic Realism in Select Post-Holocaust Fictions 13.
"Once-upon-a-very-real-time": Fairy Tales and Holocaust in Jane Yolen's
Novels 14. Retelling the Holocaust with Children: A Pedagogic Study of
Stephen King's Apt Pupil and Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic 15. "Is it
safe?": Marathon Man as Holocaust Drama 16. Child's Play, Fantasy and the
Holocaust in Jojo Rabbit and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 17. In
correctamundo?: Holocaust, Humor, and Anti-Hate Satire in the Works of
Brooks and Waititi