On Shoreless Sea: The Ms St. Louis Refugee Ship in History, Film and Popular Memory - Couverture souple

Grundmann, Roy

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798855803761

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2025

Synopsis

In 1939, the ocean liner MS St. Louis undertook a dramatic voyage with over nine hundred Jewish refugees that caught the world's attention and has been remembered in numerous printed texts, films, and artifacts. On Shoreless Sea is the first work to comprehensively analyze the journey's unfolding, its historical context, and its key representations in various media. Based on new archival research and featuring a translation of Captain Gustav Schröder's account of the voyage, the book corrects long-standing misassumptions about its subject. Author Roy Grundmann illuminates the voyage's historical significance and demonstrates its relevance to our present, in which prosperous nations once again stem mass migration. Arguing that the Jewish refugee crisis was caused not only by anti-Semitism but also by colonialism and neocolonialism, Grundmann calls for Holocaust studies to expand its field of inquiry and methodology. Working at the intersection of Holocaust studies, postcolonial theory, film and media studies, and cultural studies, On Shoreless Sea reads St. Louis memory culture as a reservoir of contradictory attitudes toward migration whose texts both intentionally and inadvertently testify to the need to discuss the Holocaust in relation to other genocides without denying its uniqueness.

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À propos de l?auteur

Roy Grundmann is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Boston University. He works at the intersection of film and media studies, migration studies, and maritime history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798855803761
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 476
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