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FotografÃa tomada por James Friedman, de 12 campos de concentración nazis, cartel para cámara de gas y autorretrato, campo de concentración de Natzweiler-Struthof, cerca de Estrasburgo, Francia, 1981
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Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory (Routledge, 2011), grapples with how space and memory connect, how the Holocaust travels through the geographies of contemporary space and finds ground internationally. The book asks how spaces of the past stay with us through representations—whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an interpretive or representational touchstone for genocides and traumas globally? By looking at texts that are all concerned with the physical and/or mental landscape of the Holocaust and its transformations from the postwar period to the early twenty-first century, the book shows that the Holocaust and fascism are embedded in the physical and mental landscapes of our era and are used globally for a surprisingly contradictory series of political aims that testify to the ubiquity and elasticity of the memory of World War II.
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