Teaching the rhetoric of resistance The popular holocaust and social change in a post 9/11 world /

Analyzes diverse contemporary reactions to the depiction of the Holocaust and other cultural traumas in museums, movies, television shows, classroom discussions, and bestselling books. This work also describes several effective pedagogical strategies dedicated to overcoming student resistances to cr...

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Main Authors: Samuels, Robert
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Psychoanalysis, education and social transformation
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230609945
Summary: Analyzes diverse contemporary reactions to the depiction of the Holocaust and other cultural traumas in museums, movies, television shows, classroom discussions, and bestselling books. This work also describes several effective pedagogical strategies dedicated to overcoming student resistances to critical analysis and social engagement.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2008.
Carrier Form: 192 p.
ISBN: 9780230602724
9780230609945 :
0230609945 :
CLC: B84
Contents: Introduction: Psychoanalytic Pedagogy, Cultural Defense Mechanisms, and Social Change * What's a Concentration Camp, Dad?: Museums, Pedagogy, and the Rhetoric of Popular Culture * Remembering to Forget: Schindler's List, Critical Pedagogy, and the Popular Holocaust * Life Is Beautiful, but for Whom?: Transference, Counter-Transference, and Student Responses to Teaching about the Holocaust * Freud Goes to South Park: Teaching Against Postmodern Prejudices and Equal Opportunity Hatred * Teaching Against Binaries: Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in the Culture of Rhetorical Reversals * Conclusi