Holocaust vs. Popular Culture: Interrogating Incompatibility and Universalization - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 103216977X ISBN 13: 9781032169774

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

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.

The binary is defined in terms of “incompatibility” between the Holocaust and Popular Culture on the one hand and the “universalization” of the Holocaust memory through Popular Culture on the other. The book does emphasize the anti-representation argument. Nevertheless, the authors make a case for a productive understanding of “Holocaust Popular Culture” as contributing to the expansion of Holocaust studies as well as cultural studies in the transnational context. The book theorizes Popular Culture in broad terms and highlights the diversity of Holocaust Popular Culture mainly but not exclusively produced in the twenty-first century. This interdisciplinary collection covers a wide variety of Popular Culture genres including language, literature, films, television shows, soap operas, music, dance, social media, advertisements, comics, graphic novels, videogames, and museums. It studies the (mis)representation of the Holocaust trauma, not only across genres but also across nations (Western and Asian) and generations (from testimonial remembrance to post-memory).

This book will be of interest to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines and subjects, including Popular Culture, Holocaust studies, cultural studies, genocide studies, postcolonial and transnational studies, media and film studies, visual culture, games studies, race and ethnicity studies, memory studies, and Jewish studies.

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About the Author

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

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 103216977X
• ISBN 13: 9781032169774
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274
• Editor: Mandal Mahitosh, Das Priyanka