Teaching the Rhetoric of Resistance
Subtitle: The Popular Holocaust and Social Change in a Post 9/11 World (Education, Psychoanalysis, Social Transformation)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780230602724
Subjects: Movements - Psychoanalysis; Social Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology; Psychology; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Influence; Social aspects; Study and teaching
Description: "This book analyzes diverse contemporary reactions to the depiction of the Holocaust and other cultural traumas in museums, movies, television shows, classroom discussions, and bestselling books. Samuels scrutinizes roles played by historical trauma and the popular media in the shaping of ethnic identity as it becomes increasingly pertinent against the backdrop of globalization."--Jacket.