Teaching the Rhetoric of Resistance: The Popular Holocaust and Social Change in a Post-9/11 World [Paperback]

Analyzes diverse contemporary reactions to the depiction of the Holocaust and other cultural traumas in museums, movies, television shows, classroom discussions, and bestselling books. This work also describes several effective pedagogical strategies dedicated to overcoming student resistances to critical analysis and social engagement.Introduction: Psychoanalytic Pedagogy, Cultural Defense Mechanisms, and Social Change What's a Concentration Camp, Dad?:? Museums, Pedagogy, and the Rhetoric of Popular Culture Remembering to Forget: Schindler's List, Critical Pedagogy, and the Popular Holocaust Life Is Beautiful, but for Whom?: Transference, Counter-Transference, and Student Responses to Teaching about the Holocaust Freud Goes to South Park: Teaching Against Postmodern Prejudices and Equal Opportunity Hatred Teaching Against Binaries: Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in the Culture of Rhetorical Reversals Conclusion: From the Holocaust to the Global War on Terror

Incisive and well written, Teaching the Rhetoric of Resistance focuses on the popular reception of the Holocaust and other cultural traumas and develops a pedagogy of resistance in order to promotecritical thinking,cultural tolerance, civic engagement, andindividual and collective responsibility. This is a must read for anyone interested in how to overcome students ideological preconceptions through an engaged, non-confrontational pedagogy. - Lynn Worsham, Professor of English, Illinois State and Editor, JAC

This is a very, very smart and useful book for anyone interested in understanding the real complexity and power of education. Samuel s analysis of strategies that can talk through the embittered positions of polarized classroom discussions offers real hope for critical thinking in the twenty first century. - Marshall W. Alcorn Jr., Professor of English, George Washington University

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