Memory and Genocide

Fazil Moradi is finalizing his PhD thesis at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and the University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Ralph Buchenhorst is a Senior Researcher at Halle University. He received his PhD from the University of Vienna and his habilitation from the University of Potsdam in Germany. Buchenhorst has been a DAAD Guest Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (2002–2006) and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2013). Maria Six-Hohenbalken is a Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Lecturer at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.

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Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Preface, by Günther Schlee

Introduction: The Past in Translation

Fazil Moradi, Maria Six-Hohenbalken, Ralph Buchenhorst






Intimate Interrogations: The Literary Grammar of Communal Violence
Christi Merill




Oral Performers and Memory of Mass Violence: Dynamics of Collective and Individual Remembering
Laury Ocen




Parallel Readings: Narratives of Violence
Éva Kovács




Genocide in Translation: On Memory, Remembrance, and Politics of the Future
Fazil Moradi




Remembering the Poison Gas Attack on Halabja: Questions of Representations in the Emergence of Memory on Genocide
Maria Six-Hohenbalken




Afterlives of Genocide: Return of Human Bodies from Berlin to Windhoek, 2011
Memory Biwa




Communicating the Unthinkable: A Psychodynamic Perspective
Ivana Maček




Between Nakba, Shoah and Apartheid: Notes on a Film from the Interstices
Heidi Grunebaum




The Rethinking of Remembering: Who Lays Claim to Speech in the Wake of Catastrophe?
Rachmi Diyah Larasati




Field, Forum, and Vilified Art: Recent Developments in the Representation of Mass Violence and its Remembrance
Ralph Buchenhorst



Afterword: Wonder Woman, the Gutter, and Critical Genocide Studies

Alexander Laban Hinton

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