Space in Holocaust Memory and Representation
A special issue of Genealogy (ISSN 2313-5778).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2023) | Viewed by 18055
Special Issue Editors
Interests: holocaust testimony; holocaust memorialisation; Scrolls of Auschwitz; Auschwitz Sonderkommando
Interests: holocaust memory; holocaust representation; literature; film; post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe
Interests: holocaust memory; holocaust representation; creative cartography
Interests: French and Francophone; holocaust memory and representation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In this Special Issue, we will explore some of the innovative ways in which scholars of representation and memory are beginning to address questions of Holocaust spatiality.
Spatial and environmental analysis of the Holocaust has tended to be practised by historians and geographers (e.g., Knowles et al., 2014; Cole, 2016), at times positioning themselves explicitly as an alternative to cultural and memory studies (Małczyński et al., 2020). However, questions of memory and representation both illuminate and are illuminated by issues of space.
Space is fundamental to representation in not only visual but also aural and verbal forms. Memory is often associated with and enabled by particular spaces; spaces are shaped by memory and in themselves can constitute a form of memory. While there exists an extensive tradition of work on these questions (e.g., Heath, 1976; Schama, 1995), it has had limited uptake in the historiography of the Holocaust. In contrast, this Special Issue takes as its starting point the recognition that questions of space, memory and representation are closely intertwined and must thus be explored in conjunction rather than separately.
How have the spaces and places of the Holocaust been represented? How does memory take spatial forms? In what ways can we see space as integral to the representation and memory of the Holocaust, even if (seemingly) only in implicit or un-foregrounded ways? What new insights do methods developed within the humanities offer the ‘spatial turn’ in Holocaust studies?
We invite proposals for papers on topics related to our theme. Areas can include, but are not limited to:
- Journeys;
- Linguistic and geographical displacement;
- Layered and palimpsestic images;
- Cyberspace;
- Location film footage;
- Fantasy and escapism;
- Repurposed sites and buildings
We look forward to receiving your contributions. Please contact the editors in advance if you are interested in submitting a paper.
For authors submitting to this special issue, the journal will not charge the APCs.
Cole, T. (2016) Holocaust Landscapes. London: Bloomsbury.
Heath, S. (1976) ‘Narrative Space’, Screen, 17(3), pp. 68–112.
Knowles, A., Cole, T. and Giordano A. (2014) Geographies of the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Małczyński, J., Domańska, E., Smykowski M. and Kłos, A. (2020) ‘The Environmental History of the Holocaust’, Journal of Genocide Research, 22(2), pp. 183–196.
Schama, S. (1995) Landscape and Memory. London: HarperCollins.
Dr. Dominic Williams
Dr. Emily-Rose Baker
Dr. Michael Holden
Dr. Diane Otosaka
Prof. Sue Vice
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- holocaust
- space
- memory
- representation
- humanities
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