Geographies of Perpetration

Re-Signifying Cultural Narratives of Mass Violence

Brigitte E. Jirku, Vicente Sánchez-Biosca, Brigitte E. Jirku

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9783631810989
• eBook ISBN: 9783631859469
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: German Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This volume maps cultural representations of Mass Violence from the perpetrators' perspective. It analyzes spaces where political crimes have been committed and how these places have undergone successive resemanticization in collective memories. The chapters comparatively examine scenes of Mass Violence carried out in very diverse regions of the globe, from the Third Reich to the Argentinian Dictatorship, from the Gulag to Francoist Spain, from the Cambodian genocide to terrorism. They explore, from a "cultural" point of view, how the events have been represented, i.e. visualized and narrated, and how the crime scenes have been reappropriated for the sake of memory, mourning, and prevention, in accordance with political, social, and ideological frameworks.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Information
• Copyright Information
• Table of content
• Mapping Cultural Narratives of Mass Violence. An Introduction (Brigitte E. Jirku, Vicente Sánchez- Biosca)
• Crime Scenes and the Politics of Memory
• Scenes of Mass Violence and the Phantoms of the Perpetrator
• Reenactment—Artistic Representation of the Crime Scenes
• List of Authors
• Series index