Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation

by B. MacDonald David and David Bruce Macdonald

Book Overview

In an era of globalization and identity politics, this book explores how Holocaust imagery and vocabulary have been appropriated and applied to other genocides.

The author examines how the Holocaust has impacted on other ethnic and social groups, asking whether the Holocaust as a symbol is a useful or destructive means of reading non-Jewish history. This volume:

explains the rise of the Holocaust as a gradual process, charting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415543525
• ISBN13: 9780415543521
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"