| Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust Subjects: Holocaust Jewish (1939–1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects; Holocaust Jewish (1939–1945) -- Influence; Victims; Collective memory; In Aversion and Erasure , Carolyn J. Dean offers a bold account of how the Holocaust's status as humanity's most terrible example of evil has shaped contemporary discourses about victims in the West. Carolyn J. Dean is John Hay Professor of International Studies at Brown University. She is the author of several books, including The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust , also from Cornell, The Frail Social Body , and Sexuality and Modern Western Culture . |