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Are you worried about the "hegemonic position of the Shoah within American life?" Sick and tired of how the "'Holocaust Industry' influences national and international communities, discourses and debates?" Feel it's high time somebody displaced "the 'Holocaust Industry' from these discourses while centering the specifically national, and more generally genocidal histories which the Jewish Holocaust’s current hyper-visibility inherently stifles our understanding of?" Had it up to here with all those newspaper articles on the Holocaust and "the eternal need to 'make sure it never happens again'"?
If so, this call for papers is for you.
Now, I don't doubt for a minute that I may have been "conditioned by the surrealism and hypocrisy of regret." And I'm the last person who would knowingly "problematize resistance through language." But despite the fact that I find about 80% of the stuff in this proposal nearly incomprehensible, it still seems pretty creepy to me.
Maybe it's the scare quotes in that last quoted example that pushes it over the edge. Am I just imagining the implied derision here? Maybe. But it still creeps me out.
(via Andrew Sullivan.)
Posted by Dr. Frank at December 2, 2002 05:08 PM | TrackBack