Search for dissertations about: "Holocaust representation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Holocaust representation.

2. 1. Beyond the Witness : Holocaust Representations and the Testimony of Images

   Author : Rebecka Katz Thor; Cecilia Sjöholm; Stefan Jonsson; Gertrud Koch; Thomas Keenan; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Image; film; witness; Holocaust; Warsaw ghetto; Westerbork; Eichmann; Harun Farocki; Yael Hersonski; Eyal Sivan; archive; testimony; commemoration.; film; bild; vittne; vittnesmål; förintelsen; arkiv; Farocki; Hersonski; Sivan; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Abstract : In a time when the very last Holocaust witnesses will soon be gone, a possible route for commemoration is to ask what testimony images can give. This book seeks to answer the question of how images can bear witness by examining them as multifaceted entities produced, reproduced, and resituated in conflicting political and historical situations. READ MORE

4. 2. Making Sense of Suffering : Holocaust and Holodomor in Ukrainian Historical Culture

   Author : Johan Dietsch; Historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Historia; History; Europeanisation; history education; Holodomor; 1932?1933 famine; Holocaust; national identity; diaspora; uses of history; historical culture; historical consciousness; Ukraine; post-Soviet; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ; Political history; Politisk historia;

   Abstract : This study deals with the problem of how Ukraine has incorporated and made use of the Holocaust and the 1932?1933 famine (Holodomor) in its new national history and historical culture. The investigation departs from the increased interest in and attention devoted to the Holocaust in recent years. READ MORE

5. 3. Ambiguous Endeavours. The Evolution of the Melodramatic Mode in Polish Holocaust Narratives from Hanna Krall to "The Aftermath"

   Author : Anita Pluwak; Öst- och centraleuropakunskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Melodrama; popular culture; Holocaust representation; post-communism; Poland.;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how melodrama, defined as a complex, distinctly modern and transnational mode of storytelling with lasting impact on the culture of global modernity, has influenced the area of Polish Holocaust representation since the late 1970s till the present. Within a methodological frame that seeks to combine textual and contextual analysis, the study poses a set of questions that can be asked of the melodramatic mode’s narrative structures and stylistic devices, their signifying and functionality, in selected instances of literary and film narratives. READ MORE

6. 4. Narrating Humanity : Children's Literature and Global Citizenship Education

   Author : Aliona Yarova; Björn Sundmark; Zoe Jaques; Malmö universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; children’s literature; critical literacy; eco-philosophy; environmental awareness; global citizenship education; humanism; magic realism.;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore how children’s magic realist fiction contributes to critical Global Citizenship Education (GCE). This study argues that children’s magic realist literature can facilitate young readers’ knowledge and understanding of human rights issues and promote environmental awareness in a non-didactic manner by representing global issues from non-human perspectives. READ MORE

7. 5. Rethinking the Jewish-Comics Connection

   Author : Martin Lund; Jonas Otterbeck; Johan Åberg; Beth Wenger; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jewish studies; American Judaism; comics; whiteness; identity formation; Religionsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Popular Abstract in English The publication of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) brought the Jewish–comics connection to popular attention. The novel illuminated the fact that many of the pioneers of American mainstream comics were Jewish. READ MORE