... and tools of historically specific injustices such as the Inquisition, the Holocaust, and especially the transatlantic slave trade. Rather than condemning this kind of role playing--especially as it takes place between black and white men--Julien offers sadomasochism as an embodied way to feel...

...CAROLYN J. DEAN Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2003 carolyn j. dean is Professor of History at Brown University. She is currently working on a study tentatively entitled “Empathy,Suffering, and Indifference after the Holocaust.” Adorno...

... mother was marked by history, if not literally by her birth itself. As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, I was marked by my mother. Observances, Exposures My mother, Ida, doesn’ t l ike to...

... both what one could say, show, and ask about the extermination of the Jews and who was entitled to do so. The new Holocaust discourse shaped by and around the Eichmann trial quickly became hegemonic in Israel and among American Jews, and it was soon adopted by large circles of non-Jews. Arendt’s book...

... Abortion Holocaust: Today's Final Solution . Saint Louis: Landmark, 1983 . Butler, Judith. “Imitation and Gender Insubordination.” Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories . New York:Routledge, 1991 . 13 -31. ____. Antigone's Claim: Kinship between Life and Death . New York: Columbia UP, 2000...

... ‘incompetent’ to do so” ( Eichmann 269). There was, by contrast, a sad lack of world-care, Arendt thought, in the nationalization of Nazi crimes as the Jewish Holocaust and in the use of the Eichmann trial further to consolidate Israel as a Jewish nation-state. Hence Arendt’s criticisms, most forceful, of the...

..., friendship, hospitality, seeing, cinders, painting, race, breath, mourning. Among the surprises: when new work calls me I return to read Derrida. When I fi rst turned to write about the Holocaust fi lm, Shoah, I...

... image is itself highly overdetermined as a kind of return or revenant : if it is a train, the suggestion is Auschwitz, or in any event the return of some kind of Holocaust-associated element or memory. The menacing image and vehicle that approaches us turn out to be a vaguely marked bus on a country...

... . Trans. Carl Weber. New York: Performing Arts Journal, 1984 . 49 -58. Patraka, Vivian M. Spectacular Suffering: Theatre,Fascism, and the Holocaust . Bloomington: Indiana up, 1999 . Schindler, Nina, ed. Das Mordsbuch: Alles über Krimis . Hildesheim: Claassen, 1997 . Sieg, Katrin. “Sexual...

... his recent book Images malgré tout, engages with the debates on the “unrepre- sentability,” the “unspeakability,” of the holocaust through an examination of four photographs, taken surreptitiously and at great risk by anonymous...

.... Thus, in an article reporting on discussions of what form the memorial to September 11 should take, which drew on an analogy to the Holocaust memorial that displays a mountain of abandoned shoes, the caption read: “Rememberi ng...

... of the Holocaust. Some of the uncanniness comes from the events’ association with institutional exceptionalism (and memories of recent similar cases): the exceptional legal procedures that marred the raf trial (itself never concluded), such as the repeated use of special laws (not used since 1945...

... theory, the notion of a “desk murderer” changed the way people thought and wrote about the Holocaust. Her slender “trial report” was therefore not only her most well known and most controversial work but it also made a significant contribution to twentieth-century scholarship. If we accept Arendt as a...

..., Zygmunt. Modernity and the Holocaust . Ithaca: Cornell up, 1989 . Benslama, Fethi. “La dépropriation.” Lignes 24 (Feb. 1995 ): 36 -40. Caldeira, Teresa. City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo . Berkeley: u of California p, 2000 . Caloz-Tschopp, Marie-Claire...

... exception. There, analyses depend heavily on analogy and thematic structures. There, capacious texts gather in figures that do their suggestive work seemingly free from the pressure of contradiction: the camp, bare life, the Holocaust...

... Holocaust” (5–6).7 Elizabeth Clark, whose recent book traces the historiographical influ- ence of “French-inspired [. . .] philosophers” and “theorists,” situates the linguistic turn in a past chapter of debate in the field that...

.... Thinking is the very activity that produces this space that allows people to see things differently without totally losing—or fully adopting—the “other fellow’s point of view” ( Eichmann 48). The exchangeability of the Holocaust with the trial and the recurrence of the same prejudices she mentions in...

..., a moment fi xed atemporally in lyric time, we fi nd an epic tradi- tion: war, fi re, hell, the subway of postmodern existence, holocaust, fi lial piety, ordeals, the threat and fear of loss, the bureaucratic state, a utopian...