Post-witnessing the concentration camps
Paul Auster's and Angela Morgan Cutler's investigative and imaginative encounters with sites of mass murder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12903918 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana I Popescu (0000-0001-8236-3101, Birkbeck, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 274-288 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17504902.2016.1148880 |
| OpenAlex | W2335072068 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
This article offers a critical analysis of British writer Angela Morgan Cutler’s and Jewish American author Paul Auster’s accounts of their encounters with the Nazi sites of mass murder Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. Having no personal connection to the history of the Holocaust, Cutler and Auster post-witness the past through experiencing contradictory sensorial and cognitive reactions to the memorial sites, which resemble cognitive dissonance
Archaeology · Art · Cognitive dissonance · German · Judaism · Nazi concentration camps · Nazism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Holocaust · Theology · Witness · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |