TY - BOOK ID - 143469321 TI - The historical uncanny : disability, ethnicity, and the politics of holocaust memory PY - 2015 SN - 9780823262809 0823262804 0823262812 9780823262816 9780823266500 0823266508 9780823262786 0823262782 PB - New York : Fordham University Press, DB - UniCat KW - People with disabilities KW - Killing of the mentally ill KW - Euthanasia KW - Collective memory KW - Holocaust memorials KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Disabled Persons KW - Holocaust KW - Jews KW - World War II KW - Nazi persecution KW - History KW - Government policy KW - Political aspects KW - Historiography KW - Atrocities KW - history KW - Slovenes KW - Croats KW - Germany. KW - Italy. KW - Slovenia. KW - Crimes against KW - Euthanasia. KW - Cultural Memory. KW - Disability. KW - Eugenics. KW - Fascism. KW - Grafeneck. KW - Holocaust. KW - Memorials. KW - Nazi Euthanasia. KW - Perpetrators. KW - Trieste. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143469321 AB - The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical memories that discomfit a public’s self-understanding, this book proposes the historical uncanny as that which resists reification precisely because it cannot be assimilated to dominant discourses of commemoration.Focusing on the problems of representation and reception, the book explores memorials for two marginalized aspects of Holocaust: the Nazi euthanasia program directed against the mentally ill and disabled and the Fascist persecution of Slovenes, Croats, and Jews in and around Trieste. Reading these memorials together with literary and artistic texts, Knittel redefines “sites of memory” as assemblages of cultural artifacts and discourses that accumulate over time; they emerge as a physical and a cultural space that is continually redefined, rewritten, and re-presented.In bringing perspectives from disability studies and postcolonialism to the question of memory, Knittel unsettles our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the culture of contemporary Europe. ER -