The world Hitler never made: alternate history and the memory of nazism
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521847063
- ISBN10 0521847060
- Type BOOK
- Pages 524
- Published 2005
- Bookbinding Cloth
Subjects
Universal History ContemporaryThe world Hitler never made: alternate history and the memory of nazism
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book details
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld's pioneering study explores why counterfactual questions on the subject of Nazism have proliferated in recent years within Western popular culture. Examining a wide range of novels, short stories, films, television programs, plays, comic books, and scholarly essays that have appeared in Great Britain, the United States, and Germany since 1945, Rosenfeld shows how the portrayal of historical events that never happened reflects the evolving memory of the Third Reich's real historical legacy. He concludes that the shifting representations of Nazism in works of alternate history, as well as the popular reactions to them, highlights their subversive role in promoting the normalization of the Nazi past in Western memory.