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The Americanization of the Holocaust
Artikel-Nr:
9780801860225
Veröffentl:
1999
Erscheinungsdatum:
09.02.1999
Seiten:
272
Autor:
Hilene Flanzbaum
Gewicht:
367 g
Format:
229x153x16 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Hilene Flanzbaum is an associate professor of English at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and an editor of Jewish-American Literature: A Norton Anthology.
The Holocaust has achieved a significant place in the American cultural consciousness -- movies, books, journalism, theater, television, populr college courses, and monuments including the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Relatively few citizens of the United States were directly affected by the Holocaust, yet it is an almost constant presence in the nation's consciousness. Arguable, in the 1990s it has supplanted Hiroshima nd Nagasaki at ground zero of our culture.Flanzbaum here presents a collection of essays on the American cultural appropriation of the Holocaust, from