1st Edition
Tracing Topographies: Revisiting the Concentration Camps Seventy Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz
Introduction: Joanne Pettitt and Vered Weiss
Section one: geographies of the Holocaust
1. Life in space, space in life: Nazi topographies, geographical imaginations, and Lebensraum Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca
2. Controversies surrounding the excavation at Börneplatz, Frankfurt am Main, 1987 Joseph Cronin
Section two: remembering and experiencing the concentration camps in the present day
3. "Romantic Auschwitz": examples and perceptions of contemporary visitor photography at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Imogen Dalziel
4. The concentration camp brothels in memory Nicole Bogue
5. The sacred, the profane, and the space in between: site-specific performance at Auschwitz Samantha Mitschke
Section three: filmic topographies
6. The cinematic city and the destruction of Lublin’s Jews Maurizio Cinquegrani
7. Transcultural engagement with Polish memory of the Holocaust while watching Leszek Wosiewicz’s Kornblumenblau Victoria Grace Walden
Section four: literary topographies
8. Post-witnessing the concentration camps: Paul Auster’s and Angela Morgan Cutler’s investigative and imaginative encounters with sites of mass murder Diana I. Popescu
9. Extra-territorial places in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz Melanie Dilly
10. British representations of the camps Sue Vice
Afterword Joanne Pettitt and Vered Weiss
Biography
Joanne Pettitt is based in the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
Vered Weiss is a post-doc working in the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
