Joanne Pettitt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1444682 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joanne Pettitt |
| PRENOMES | Joanne |
| SOBRENOME | Pettitt |
| ASSINATURA | PETTITT J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Kent |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
From Nazism to Nationalism
Often connected to collective memories of the Second World War, the popular perception of fascism in Britain is that it is a fundamentally foreign concern, at odds with the values of the British people and unlikely to take root in a country that extols tolerance and democracy. Nevertheless, Far-Right groups have existed on the peripheries of the British political landscape since the 1920s. This article argues that fictional works that depict the …
Reading Genre in Holocaust Perpetrator Narratives
Review of: Ned Curthoys, The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age (London: Bloomsbury, 2024). 168 pp. (hardcover). GBP 72.00. ISBN: 9798765103890
(Re-)Writing the Holocaust After Brexit
This article examines the representation of a Nazi-occupied Britain in post-2016 reworkings of earlier alternative histories in which Britain lost the war. It does so by placing the 2017 television series SS-GB and C. J. Carey's 2021 novel Widowland in conversation with their original counterparts: Len Deighton's 1978 novel of the same name and Robert Harris' Fatherland of 1992, respectively. Each text therefore has to imagine the consequences of…
Nazis in Auschwitz
This article considers the various ways in which the topographies of Auschwitz are used as a symbolic means of articulating particular kinds of guilt in fiction relating to the Holocaust. To do this, I analyse three primary examples: John Donoghue’s The Death’s Head Chess Club (2015), Martin Amis’ The Zone of Interest (2014), and Dalton Trumbo’s unfinished novel, Night of the Aurochs (1979). These texts, I argue, employ the complex spatial dynami…
Visual-Textual Encounters with a German Grandfather
In this article, I consider the artistic and literary work of Angela Findlay, the daughter of a German mother and English father, and the granddaughter of a highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier. Working as a visual artist, public speaker and writer, Findlay moves between representational forms in order to express the complexities associated with her dual heritage and the "legacy of shame" that she carries with her. I take Findlay's In My Grandfathe…
What is Holocaust perpetrator fiction
In this article, I argue that fiction that centralizes the perpetrator perspective should be understood as a central part of the canon of Holocaust fiction. However, as I aim to show, greater distinction needs to be made between different kinds of perpetrator writing. Comparing fiction about generic Nazis with stories that centralize the figure of Adolf Hitler, I attempt to outline some of the key similarities and differences. Ultimately, perpetr…
Introduction
The word Auschwitz is multifaceted. Indeed, Auschwitz is a site of mass atrocity, a museum, a cemetery, a focal point of Holocaust memory, a place of education, a town in south west Poland, a tourist “must-see,” and a place where complex negotiations of identity and morality take place. Overshadowing all of these nuances, the word itself has entered common vernacular as shorthand for the Holocaust or, even more generally, as an example of an unco…
Holocaust Narratives
Taking “second-generation perpetrators” to refer to the tension between the guilt of the parents who were actively involved in carrying out Nazi atrocities, and the innocence of their offspring, I posit the oscillation between these positions as a form of liminality. Underpinned by the work of Jacques Derrida and Marianne Hirsch, I discuss this form of liminality in relation to concepts of the ghostly, examining the ways in which Holocaust narrat…
Afterword
Jewish “culpability”
This article considers representations of Jewish “culpability” during the Holocaust. Despite the undoubtedly contentious nature of the topic, I take as my starting point that the actions of the victims of the genocide were not all beyond moral reproach. This is not to confuse cause and effect but, rather, to acknowledge the nuances of the atrocity. Analyzing the representation of these ambiguities in a wide range of literature and film, I argue t…
Popular Psychopaths and Holocaust Perpetrators
Memory and complicity
Debarati Sanyal’s Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance provides an impressive account of the ways in which literature and film can document the intersections between memories
Introduction
The word Auschwitz is multifaceted. Indeed, Auschwitz is a site of mass atrocity, a museum, a cemetery, a focal point of Holocaust memory, a place of education, a town in south west Poland, a tourist “must-see,” and a place where complex negotiations of identity and morality take place. Overshadowing all of these nuances, the word itself has entered common vernacular as shorthand for the Holocaust or, even more generally, as an example of an unco…
Jewish “culpability”
This article considers representations of Jewish “culpability” during the Holocaust. Despite the undoubtedly contentious nature of the topic, I take as my starting point that the actions of the victims of the genocide were not all beyond moral reproach. This is not to confuse cause and effect but, rather, to acknowledge the nuances of the atrocity. Analyzing the representation of these ambiguities in a wide range of literature and film, I argue t…
Popular Psychopaths and Holocaust Perpetrators
Afterword
Jewish “culpability”
This article considers representations of Jewish “culpability” during the Holocaust. Despite the undoubtedly contentious nature of the topic, I take as my starting point that the actions of the victims of the genocide were not all beyond moral reproach. This is not to confuse cause and effect but, rather, to acknowledge the nuances of the atrocity. Analyzing the representation of these ambiguities in a wide range of literature and film, I argue t…
Popular Psychopaths and Holocaust Perpetrators
Memory and complicity
Debarati Sanyal’s Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance provides an impressive account of the ways in which literature and film can document the intersections between memories
Holocaust Narratives
Taking “second-generation perpetrators” to refer to the tension between the guilt of the parents who were actively involved in carrying out Nazi atrocities, and the innocence of their offspring, I posit the oscillation between these positions as a form of liminality. Underpinned by the work of Jacques Derrida and Marianne Hirsch, I discuss this form of liminality in relation to concepts of the ghostly, examining the ways in which Holocaust narrat…
Introduction
The word Auschwitz is multifaceted. Indeed, Auschwitz is a site of mass atrocity, a museum, a cemetery, a focal point of Holocaust memory, a place of education, a town in south west Poland, a tourist “must-see,” and a place where complex negotiations of identity and morality take place. Overshadowing all of these nuances, the word itself has entered common vernacular as shorthand for the Holocaust or, even more generally, as an example of an unco…
What is Holocaust perpetrator fiction
In this article, I argue that fiction that centralizes the perpetrator perspective should be understood as a central part of the canon of Holocaust fiction. However, as I aim to show, greater distinction needs to be made between different kinds of perpetrator writing. Comparing fiction about generic Nazis with stories that centralize the figure of Adolf Hitler, I attempt to outline some of the key similarities and differences. Ultimately, perpetr…
Nazis in Auschwitz
This article considers the various ways in which the topographies of Auschwitz are used as a symbolic means of articulating particular kinds of guilt in fiction relating to the Holocaust. To do this, I analyse three primary examples: John Donoghue’s The Death’s Head Chess Club (2015), Martin Amis’ The Zone of Interest (2014), and Dalton Trumbo’s unfinished novel, Night of the Aurochs (1979). These texts, I argue, employ the complex spatial dynami…
Visual-Textual Encounters with a German Grandfather
In this article, I consider the artistic and literary work of Angela Findlay, the daughter of a German mother and English father, and the granddaughter of a highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier. Working as a visual artist, public speaker and writer, Findlay moves between representational forms in order to express the complexities associated with her dual heritage and the "legacy of shame" that she carries with her. I take Findlay's In My Grandfathe…
Reading Genre in Holocaust Perpetrator Narratives
Review of: Ned Curthoys, The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age (London: Bloomsbury, 2024). 168 pp. (hardcover). GBP 72.00. ISBN: 9798765103890
(Re-)Writing the Holocaust After Brexit
This article examines the representation of a Nazi-occupied Britain in post-2016 reworkings of earlier alternative histories in which Britain lost the war. It does so by placing the 2017 television series SS-GB and C. J. Carey's 2021 novel Widowland in conversation with their original counterparts: Len Deighton's 1978 novel of the same name and Robert Harris' Fatherland of 1992, respectively. Each text therefore has to imagine the consequences of…
From Nazism to Nationalism
Often connected to collective memories of the Second World War, the popular perception of fascism in Britain is that it is a fundamentally foreign concern, at odds with the values of the British people and unlikely to take root in a country that extols tolerance and democracy. Nevertheless, Far-Right groups have existed on the peripheries of the British political landscape since the 1920s. This article argues that fictional works that depict the …
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