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Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War : Narratives from Europe and East Asia / ed. by Daqing Yang, Achim Saupe, Randall Hansen, Andreas Wirsching.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: German and European StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021]Copyright date: 2021Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) : 1 B&W illustration, 1 figureContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781487528218
  • 9781487528225
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53/1 23
LOC classification:
  • D744.7.E8 A88 2021
  • D744.7.E8 A98 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: War, Genocide, and Forced Migration -- PART 1 Methodological and Theoretical Approaches -- 1 From Hero’s Death to Suffering Victim: Reflections on the “Post-Heroic” Culture of Memory -- 2 Victim Identities and the Dynamics of “Authentication”: Patterns of Shaping, Ranking, and Reassessment -- PART 2 Victims of Genocide and Massacres -- 3 Eastern European Shoah Victims and the Problem of Group Identity -- 4 History on Trial before the Social Welfare Courts: Holocaust Survivors, German Judges, and the Struggle for “Ghetto Pensions” -- 5 Construction of Victimhood in Contemporary China: Toward a Post-Heroic Representation of History? -- 6 The “Death of Manila” in the Second World War and Its Postwar Commemoration -- PART 3 War Victims -- 7 Air Raid Victims in Japan’s Collective Remembrance of War -- 8 Between Memory and Policy: How Societies of Leningrad Siege Survivors Remember the War -- 9 Victims, Perpetrators, or Both? How History Textbooks and History Teachers in Post-Soviet Lithuania Remember Postwar Partisans -- PART 4 Victims of Forced Migration and Deportations -- 10 In Search of a Usable Memory: The Politics of History and the Day of Commemoration for German Forced Migrants after the Second World War -- 11 Of Italian Perpetrators and Victims: Forced Migration in the Italian- Yugoslavian Border Region, 1922–1954 -- 12 Defiant Victims: The Deportation of the Chechen and the Memory of Stalinism in the Soviet Union and Russia -- 13 East Asian Victimhood Goes to Paris: A Consideration of Second World War– Related Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Nominations to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Project -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: War, Genocide, and Forced Migration -- PART 1 Methodological and Theoretical Approaches -- 1 From Hero’s Death to Suffering Victim: Reflections on the “Post-Heroic” Culture of Memory -- 2 Victim Identities and the Dynamics of “Authentication”: Patterns of Shaping, Ranking, and Reassessment -- PART 2 Victims of Genocide and Massacres -- 3 Eastern European Shoah Victims and the Problem of Group Identity -- 4 History on Trial before the Social Welfare Courts: Holocaust Survivors, German Judges, and the Struggle for “Ghetto Pensions” -- 5 Construction of Victimhood in Contemporary China: Toward a Post-Heroic Representation of History? -- 6 The “Death of Manila” in the Second World War and Its Postwar Commemoration -- PART 3 War Victims -- 7 Air Raid Victims in Japan’s Collective Remembrance of War -- 8 Between Memory and Policy: How Societies of Leningrad Siege Survivors Remember the War -- 9 Victims, Perpetrators, or Both? How History Textbooks and History Teachers in Post-Soviet Lithuania Remember Postwar Partisans -- PART 4 Victims of Forced Migration and Deportations -- 10 In Search of a Usable Memory: The Politics of History and the Day of Commemoration for German Forced Migrants after the Second World War -- 11 Of Italian Perpetrators and Victims: Forced Migration in the Italian- Yugoslavian Border Region, 1922–1954 -- 12 Defiant Victims: The Deportation of the Chechen and the Memory of Stalinism in the Soviet Union and Russia -- 13 East Asian Victimhood Goes to Paris: A Consideration of Second World War– Related Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Nominations to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Project -- Contributors -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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