Open AccessHolocaust Humor and Our Aesthetic Sensibility of American Genocide
Author(s) -
SKITOLSKY LISSA
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of aesthetics and art criticism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.553
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1540-6245
pISSN - 0021-8529
DOI - 10.1111/jaac.12679
Subject(s) - the holocaust , complicity , witness , sensibility , genocide , narrative , white (mutation) , literature , history , art , philosophy , law , theology , political science , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
The specific form of holocaust humor that I will address—as developed by comedians Larry David, Sarah Silverman, Rachel Bloom, Ilana Glazer, and Abbi Jacobson—is neither trivial nor trivializes the suffering of the Jews but rather can expose the complicity of our narratives about the holocaust with our own white indifference to the pervasive ruthlessness of American genocide against black communities and our failure to bear witness to the survival of certain genocidal logics from the past in the American present.
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