Nothing Happened

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-472-11855-7
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

<DIV></DIV> <p>Charlotte Salomon's (1917-43) fantastical autobiography, <I>Life? or Theater?</I>, consists of 769 sequenced gouache paintings, through which the artist imagined the circumstances of the eight suicides in her family, all but one of them women. But Salomon's focus on suicide was not merely a familial idiosyncrasy. <I>Nothing Happened</I> argues that the social history of early-20th-century Germany has elided an important cultural and social phenomenon by not including the story of German Jewish women and suicide. This absence in social history mirrors an even larger gap in the intellectual history of deeply gendered suicide studies that have reproduced the notion of women's suicide as a rarity in history. <I>Nothing Happened</I> is a historiographic intervention that operates in conversation and in tension with contemporary theory about trauma and the reconstruction of emotion in history.</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buerkle, Darcy

Über Autor(innen)

<DIV></DIV> <P style=""LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal><B>Darcy Buerkle</B> is Associate Professor of History at Smith College and the 2011–12 Walter Benjamin Endowed Visiting Chair in German Jewish Studies at Humboldt University–Berlin.</P>