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Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, History
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 32–70.
Published: 01 May 2008
... 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 historical...
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Pedagogy in Gray: Primo Levi as Teacher
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 106–128.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Anthony C. Wexler Between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s, Primo Levi, the great Italian survivor and writer, visited classrooms across Italy to talk with students about the Holocaust. During these visits, students openly challenged Levi’s testimony or failed to understand what he had to say. How...
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Empathy, Pornography, and Suffering
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differences (2003) 14 (1): 88–124.
Published: 01 May 2003
...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...
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A Barely Visible Protagonist
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 106–120.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... It is that anxiety and opposition that Arendt fails to understand, even when she recognizes the State of Israel’s instrumental use of the Holocaust. Arendt cannot see—and the film dare not show—how that instrumentality becomes a part of a new political order and of the Israeli regime’s own rhizomatic distribution...
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Birthmarks
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differences (2003) 14 (1): 163–167.
Published: 01 May 2003
... 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...
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Technologies of Humanness, Aporias of Biopolitics, and the Cut Body of Humanity
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differences (2003) 14 (1): 125–162.
Published: 01 May 2003
.... The 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...
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Between Nuremberg and Jerusalem: Hannah Arendt’s Tikkun Olam
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 48–93.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Shoshana . The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 2002 . Felman Shoshana . “ Theaters of Justice: Arendt in Jerusalem, the Eichmann Trial, and the Redefinition of Legal Meaning in the Wake of the Holocaust. ” Juridical 106...
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Women in the Fortress Europe: Feminist Crime Fiction as Antifascist Performative
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differences (2005) 16 (2): 138–166.
Published: 01 September 2005
... . 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...
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differences (2007) 18 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 May 2007
... 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
members...
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Rereading Jacques Derrida: Afterwords 2005
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 95–101.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., 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
was fi rst led to his text Cinders; more recent work...
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“Portraits of Grief”: Telling Details and the Testimony of Trauma
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differences (2003) 14 (3): 112–135.
Published: 01 December 2003
... 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 the Little Things...
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 61–69.
Published: 01 September 2015
... 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 road...
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Unheimlichkeit in Kinderheim and Stammheim: Memories of Baader-Meinhof
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 102–133.
Published: 01 May 2018
... these are the “facts,” the German Autumn—in particular, Todesnacht—continues to reverberate in the key of the uncanny. It continues to haunt German collective memory, and this in part links it to the specter of the Holocaust. Some of the uncanniness comes from the events’ association with institutional exceptionalism...
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Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Anthropology
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 9–35.
Published: 01 December 2009
.... 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. Les sans...
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Tragic Dislocations: Antigone's Modern Theatrics
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differences (1998) 10 (1): 75–97.
Published: 01 April 1998
... of Psychoanalysis 1959–1960: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII . Trans. Miller Dennis Potter. Ed. Jacques-Alain . London : Tavistock/Routledge , 1992 . Langer Lawrence L. Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays . New York and Oxford : Oxford UP , 1996 . Levinas Emmanuel . La...
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Immigrant Rage: Alienhood, “Hygienic” Identities, and the Second World
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differences (2006) 17 (2): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2006
....” Crucially, what kind of valence
does this rage carry, being expressed by a woman who comes from post-
Holocaust Poland, a second world country, and critiques the prescrip-
tion of a “hygienic” immigrant self? What needs...
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Universalism and Partition: A Queer Theory
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 117–140.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... After all, the people being deemed Muslim are Jews . As Gil Anidjar points out by means of an anecdote: I had an Israeli student with whom I went over this material [on der Muselmann] in a class on Holocaust literature. After I spoke to her about the Muslims of Auschwitz, she recognized the term...
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The Historical Event
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differences (2008) 19 (2): 9–34.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., or necessary condition of facts.
There has been a great deal of discussion of late about the event
in general and about the historical event specifically. In historiography,
the evental status of the Holocaust is a matter...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 September 2010
... empathy that has arisen in trauma theory
(and especially trauma related to the Holocaust) is relevant here. In her
book Empathic Vision, Jill Bennett distinguishes critical empathy from
the “crude” empathy that Brecht critiqued...
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"But She’s a Thinker"
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 86–92.
Published: 01 September 2015
....” Understanding the ways he was similar to other men led to an entirely different way of viewing the Nazi phenomenon. Whether or not one admired or detested Arendt’s theory, the notion of a “desk murderer” changed the way people thought and wrote about the Holocaust. Her slender “trial report” was therefore...
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