Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim After the Holocaust
ISBN: 9780801460333
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Modern History (1700 to 1945) European History;

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 .

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