Beschreibung:
This volume explores violent perpetration in diverse forms from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. From National Socialist perpetration in the museum, through post-terrorist life writing to embodied performances of perpetration in cosplay, the collection draws upon a series of historical and geographical case studies, seen through the lens of a variety of texts, with a particular focus on the locus of the museum as a technology of sense making. In addition to its authored chapters, the volume includes three contributed interviews which offer a practice-led perspective on the topic.
1. Perpetrating Selves: An Introduction; Clare Bielby and Jeffrey Stevenson Murer.- PART ONE: Enactments and Bodily Performances.- 2. Leading Men a Merry Dance?: Girls as Sex Crime Perpetrators in Contemporary Pop Culture and Media; Melissa Dearey.- 3. Embodying a Perpetrator: Myths, Monsters and Magic; Katarina H. S. Birkedal.- 4. The Making of a Dangerous Individual: Performing the Perpetrating Self -- An Interview with Steve Pratt; Clare Bielby and Jeffrey Stevenson Murer.- PART TWO: Narration and Textual Performances.- 5. Scripting the Perpetrating Self: Masculinity, Class and Violence in German Post-terrorist Autobiography; Clare Bielby.- 6. Innocent Superspy: Contradictory Narratives as Exculpation in a Woman Apartheid Perpetrator Story; Robyn Bloch.- 7. 'It's My Destiny': Narrating Prison Violence and Masculinity in the Shaun Attwood Trilogy; Josephine Metcalf.- 8. Intimate Enemies: Representations of Perpetrators in Literary Responses to the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda; Nicki Hitchcott.- 9. 'By Any Means Necessary': Interviews and Narrative Analysis with Torturers - A Conversation with Dr. John Tsukayama; Clare Bielby and Jeffrey Stevenson Murer.- PART THREE: Perpetration in the Museum.- 10. Selective Empathy in the Re-designed Imperial War Museum London: Heroes and Perpetrators; Gabriel Koureas.- 11. Identifying with Mass Murderers? Representing Male Perpetrators in Museum Exhibitions of the Holocaust; Birga Meyer.- 12. Managing Perpetrator Affect: The Female Guard Exhibition at Ravensbrück; Susanne Luhmann.- 13. Curating Violence: Display and Representation -- An Interview with Jonathan Ferguson and Lisa Traynor (Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds); Clare Bielby and Jeffrey Stevenson Murer.