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Perpetrator Lifewriting: Culpability, Complicity and Self-fashioning

Autor Dr Pramod K. Nayar
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 aug 2026
This study of memoirs by nearly two dozen 20th century individuals involved in the perpetration and commission of mass atrocities examines their strategies of self-representation. Perpetrator lifewriting, from the Holocaust to Khmer Rouge to Abu Ghraib, moves between exculpation and inculpation, with the perps claiming they were mere 'cogs in the wheel', thus accepting complicity but rarely culpability. It shows how the memoirs construct a post facto self, claiming traumas of their own at what they perpetrated. The Sonderkommando texts, emerging from the 'grey zone' as Primo Levi called it, present the ambiguous perpetrator who, as one sonderkommando put it, 'did the dirty work of the Holocaust'. The study concludes with a reading of memoirs by secretaries and office staff who served the leaders who ordered exterminations and torture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789361317705
ISBN-10: 9361317709
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic India
Locul publicării:New Delhi, India

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reading Perpetrators
1 'I had only been a cog in the wheel': Between the Exculpatory and the Inculpatory
2 'I didn't want to admit my sensitivity': From the Traumatized to the Post Facto Self
3 'We did the dirty work of the Holocaust': The Sonderkommando and the Ambiguous Perpetrator
4 'Nobody can claim today that they didn't know': Support Staff and the Proprioceptive Narrative
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author