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

1st Edition

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

By David B. MacDonald Copyright 2008
276 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
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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... Read more

Acknowledgements  "Introduction: The Holocaust and Identity Politics"  1. "Cosmopolitanizing the Holocaust: From the Eichmann Trial to Identity Politics"  2. "Considering Holocaust Uniqueness: From Hebrew Peoplehood to the Americanization of Memory"  3. "Colonialism, Genocide, and Indigenous Rights: America, Australia, and New Zealand"  4. "Uncle Sam’s Willing Executioners? Indigenous Genocide and Representation in the United States"  5. "Australia: Aboriginal Genocide and the Holocaust"  6. "Indigenous History Through the Prism of the Holocaust: New Zealand Maori"  7. "The Armenian Genocide: The Politics of Recognition and Denial"  8. "The Armenian Genocide and Contemporary Holocaust Scholarship"  9. "Nanking, The Chinese Holocaust, and Japanese Atomic Victim Exceptionalism"  10. "Serbs, Croats, and the Dismemberment of Yugoslavia: War and Genocide in the Twentieth Century"  11. "Serbophobia and Victimhood: Serbia and the Successor Wars in Yugoslavia"  "Conclusions"

Biography

David B. MacDonald is Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

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