Harry Potter and the Remnants of Auschwitz: The Banality of Concentrationary Memory
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77490
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In this conference we wish to investigate the often oblique manifestations of the legacies of the concentrationary in diverse forms of contemporary culture from literature, to cinema, and video games. Can aspects of the increasing obsessions with violence in media culture be related to an unacknowledged concentrationary legacy? Where is the concentrationary most visible? Is it identifiable by a lack of conscious memory that might continuously warn of its menace? In what forms has the concentrationary continued in political realizations, but also in their underlying imaginations and in imaginary forms? Where might we locate its signs? What are its effects on the subjectivities such cultural manifestations help to shape?
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Willis, I. (2011). Harry Potter and the Remnants of Auschwitz: The Banality of Concentrationary Memory. Concentrationary Imaginaries: Imaginaries of Violence International Conference (p. xx). United Kingdom: University of Leeds.