Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim After the Holocaust

by Carolyn J. Dean

Book Overview

In Aversion and Erasure, Carolyn J. Dean offers a bold account of how the Holocaust's status as humanity's most terrible example of evil has shaped contemporary discourses about victims in the West. Popular and scholarly attention to the Holocaust has led some observers to conclude that a "surfeit of Jewish memory" is obscuring the suffering of other peoples. Dean explores the pervasive idea that suffering and trauma in the United States...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501705636
• ISBN13: 9781501705632
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher