| Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies Contributor(s): Vasvári, Louise O. (Editor), Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1557535264 ISBN-13: 9781557535269 Publisher: Purdue University Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2009 Annotation: The work presented in the volume in fields of the humanities and social sciences is based on 1) the notion of the existence and the "describability" and analysis of a culture (including, e.g., history, literature, society, the arts, etc.) specific of/to the region designated as Central Europe, 2) the relevance of a field designated as Central European Holocaust studies, and 3) the relevance, in the study of culture, of the "comparative" and "contextual" approach designated as "comparative cultural studies." Papers in the volume are by scholars working in Holocaust Studies in Australia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Serbia, the United Kingdom, and the US. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| LCCN: 2008050662 |
| Series: Comparative Cultural Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 211 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies contains select papers on various topics of culture and literature in Central and East Europe from Canadian and U.S. conferences. Organized by the editor, Steven T t sy de Zepetnek, the work presented in this volume is based on 1) the notion of the existence and the describability and analysis of a culture (including history, literature, society, and the arts) specific of/to the region designated as Central Europe, 2) the relevance of a field designated as Central European Holocaust studies, and 3) the relevance, in the study of culture, of the comparative and contextual approach designated as comparative cultural studies. Based on the (contested) notion of the existence of a specific cultural context of the region defined as Central Europe, contributors to the volume discuss the following topics: comparative cultural studies as a theoretical framework for the study of Central and East European culture(s) (Steven T t sy de Zepetnek), modernism in Central European literature (Andrea F bry), Central European Holocaust poetry (Zsuzsanna Ozsv th), gender in Central European literature and film (Anik Imre), Austroslovakism in the work of Slovak writer Anton Hykisch (Peter Petro), Kundera and the identity of Central Europe (Hana Pichova), public intellectuals in Central Europe after 1989 (Katherine Arens), contemporary Austrian and Hungarian cinema (Catherine Portuges), the notion of peripherality in contemporary East European culture (Roumiana Deltcheva), and Central European Jewish family history in the film Sunshine (Susan Rubin Suleiman). The volume also includes a bibliography for the study of Central European culture (Steven T t sy de Zepetnek). |
Contributor Bio(s): Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven: - Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek's areas of scholarship include comparative literature and cultural studies; comparative media and communication studies; postcolonial studies; migration and ethnic minority studies; film and literature studies; audience studies; and European, US-American and Canadian cultures, among others. His single-authored books include Comparative Cultural Studies and the Future of the Humanities; Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application; and The Social Dimensions of Fiction. His edited volumes include New Work in the Study of World Literatures and in Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies; Digital Humanities and the Study of Intermediality in Comparative Cultural Studies; Perspectives on Identity, Migration, and Displacement; Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies; and Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature. Zepetnek has published approximately 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and his work has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. Tötösy de Zepetnek is series editor of the Purdue University Press series Books in Comparative Cultural Studies and editor of the Purdue University Press journal CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.Vasvari, Louise O.: - Louise O. Vasvari taught at the State University of New York Stony Brook where she is professor emerita. She has also taught at the Universities of California Berkeley and currently teaches at New York University. Her recent book publications include The Heterotextual Body of the Mora Morilla, Companion to the Libro de Buen Amor, and Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature. |