Authenticity and Victimhood After the Second World War: Narratives from Europe and East Asia - Rilegato

 
9781487528218: Authenticity and Victimhood After the Second World War: Narratives from Europe and East Asia
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ISBN 10: 1487528213 ISBN 13: 9781487528218
Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2021

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The Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations, and dispossession, that occurred on an unprecedented scale. Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War examines victim groups constructed in the twentieth century in the aftermath of these experiences. The collection explores the concept of authenticity through an examination of victims' histories and the construction of victimhood in Europe and East Asia. Chapters consider how notions of historical authenticity influence the self-identification and public recognition of a given social group, the tensions arising from individual and group experiences of victimhood, and the resulting, sometimes divergent, interpretation of historical events.

Drawing from case studies on topics including the Holocaust, the siege of Leningrad, American air raids on Japan, and forced migrations from Eastern Europe, Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War demonstrates the trend towards a victim-centred collective memory as well as the interplay of memory politics and public commemorative culture.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Randall Hansen is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and director of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School.
Achim Saupe is the director of the Leibniz Research Alliance for Historical Authenticity at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF).
Andreas Wirsching is the director of the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ).
Daqing Yang is an associate professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University.

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Editore
Univ of Toronto Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1487528213
ISBN 13 
9781487528218
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
341
Redattore
Hansen Randall, Saupe Achim, Wirsching Andreas, Yang Daqing
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