Susanne Hillman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Hillman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Hillman |
| SIGNATURE | HILLMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Narrating survival
In this article the authors analyze the Shoah Foundation’s video testimony of the Holocaust survivor Dina Gottliebova (1923–2009). Based on a thorough examination of Gottliebova's audiovisual narrative performance, the authors argue that video testimonies are not sources of information that can be taken as inherently factual; rather, they illuminate the narrative self-fashioning and agency of a specific individual in dialogue with a specific inte…
Empty-handed beauty
In her lifetime the French socialite and salonnière Juliette Récamier (1777–1849) was known as the most beautiful woman in all of Europe. With the help of her husband’s wealth, she managed to fashion a star persona that resonated powerfully within the context of a nascent Parisian celebrity culture at the close of the eighteenth century. Lacking discernible talents yet a popular trendsetter in fashion, art, and interior design, I claim that Récam…
Not living, but going”
Over the past six decades, the popular view of Holocaust survivors has undergone a profound transformation. In the public eye survivors have gradually metamorphosed from traumatized victims of Nazi brutality whose stories no one wanted to hear to celebrated heroes and quasi-prophetic figures. The proliferation of survivor videography has contributed significantly to this development. An in-depth look at select video testimony from the Shoah Found…
A Germ So Tiny”
Men with Muskets, Women with Lyres
Men with Muskets, Women with Lyres: Nationality, Citizenship, and Gender in the Writings of Germaine de Staël Susanne Hillman On 23 May 1812 Germaine de Staël (1766–1817), Europe’s best-known enemy of Napoleon Bonaparte, set out from her estate on Lake Geneva to escape to England. In her reminiscences, she reflected on the pivotal event as follows: [A]fter ten years of ever-increasing persecutions [. . .] I was obliged to leave two homelands as a…
Of Snake-Catchers and Swamp-Drainers
This essay proposes the hypothesis that Central European Zionist discourse qualifies as a type of imperialism. Modern scholarship on imperialism has demonstrated the existence of common discursive strategies deployed in the service of colonialism such as depictions of the colonised territory as ‘virgin wasteland’, appeals to the mission civilizatrice, and images of the native population as an alien and inferior Other. In focusing on this discours…
Not living, but going”
Over the past six decades, the popular view of Holocaust survivors has undergone a profound transformation. In the public eye survivors have gradually metamorphosed from traumatized victims of Nazi brutality whose stories no one wanted to hear to celebrated heroes and quasi-prophetic figures. The proliferation of survivor videography has contributed significantly to this development. An in-depth look at select video testimony from the Shoah Found…
Narrating survival
In this article the authors analyze the Shoah Foundation’s video testimony of the Holocaust survivor Dina Gottliebova (1923–2009). Based on a thorough examination of Gottliebova's audiovisual narrative performance, the authors argue that video testimonies are not sources of information that can be taken as inherently factual; rather, they illuminate the narrative self-fashioning and agency of a specific individual in dialogue with a specific inte…
Men with Muskets, Women with Lyres
Men with Muskets, Women with Lyres: Nationality, Citizenship, and Gender in the Writings of Germaine de Staël Susanne Hillman On 23 May 1812 Germaine de Staël (1766–1817), Europe’s best-known enemy of Napoleon Bonaparte, set out from her estate on Lake Geneva to escape to England. In her reminiscences, she reflected on the pivotal event as follows: [A]fter ten years of ever-increasing persecutions [. . .] I was obliged to leave two homelands as a…
Of Snake-Catchers and Swamp-Drainers
This essay proposes the hypothesis that Central European Zionist discourse qualifies as a type of imperialism. Modern scholarship on imperialism has demonstrated the existence of common discursive strategies deployed in the service of colonialism such as depictions of the colonised territory as ‘virgin wasteland’, appeals to the mission civilizatrice, and images of the native population as an alien and inferior Other. In focusing on this discours…
Men with Muskets, Women with Lyres
Men with Muskets, Women with Lyres: Nationality, Citizenship, and Gender in the Writings of Germaine de Staël Susanne Hillman On 23 May 1812 Germaine de Staël (1766–1817), Europe’s best-known enemy of Napoleon Bonaparte, set out from her estate on Lake Geneva to escape to England. In her reminiscences, she reflected on the pivotal event as follows: [A]fter ten years of ever-increasing persecutions [. . .] I was obliged to leave two homelands as a…
A Germ So Tiny”
Not living, but going”
Over the past six decades, the popular view of Holocaust survivors has undergone a profound transformation. In the public eye survivors have gradually metamorphosed from traumatized victims of Nazi brutality whose stories no one wanted to hear to celebrated heroes and quasi-prophetic figures. The proliferation of survivor videography has contributed significantly to this development. An in-depth look at select video testimony from the Shoah Found…
Empty-handed beauty
In her lifetime the French socialite and salonnière Juliette Récamier (1777–1849) was known as the most beautiful woman in all of Europe. With the help of her husband’s wealth, she managed to fashion a star persona that resonated powerfully within the context of a nascent Parisian celebrity culture at the close of the eighteenth century. Lacking discernible talents yet a popular trendsetter in fashion, art, and interior design, I claim that Récam…
Narrating survival
In this article the authors analyze the Shoah Foundation’s video testimony of the Holocaust survivor Dina Gottliebova (1923–2009). Based on a thorough examination of Gottliebova's audiovisual narrative performance, the authors argue that video testimonies are not sources of information that can be taken as inherently factual; rather, they illuminate the narrative self-fashioning and agency of a specific individual in dialogue with a specific inte…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)