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Forum for Modern Language Studies 2008 44(2):212-227; doi:10.1093/fmls/cqn004
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© The Author (2008). Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved

The German Countermonument: Conceptual Indeterminacies and the Retheorisation of the Arts of Vicarious Memory

Richard Crownshaw

Department of English and Comparative Literature
Goldsmiths
University of London
London SE14 6NW
United Kingdom


  Abstract

This article examines trends in the conceptualisation of German countermonumental architecture that associate monumentality and fascism. The countermonument has been conceptualised as the appropriate form by which to memorialise the Holocaust, given its self-disruptive dynamic and inability to impose a monumental version of the past. However, following recent critiques of memory studies and German architectural discourse, this article argues that the prevailing conceptualisation of the countermonument engenders an ironic slippage from, to use Gillian Rose's terms, the "representation of fascism" to the "fascism of representation".

Key Words: countermonument • Holocaust memorialisation • memory studies • Libeskind, Daniel • Eisenman, Peter • Gerz, Jochen • Shalev-Gerz, Esther • Young, James

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