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The Life Eaters
- ... that the 2003 graphic novel The Life Eaters presenting an occult-driven hypothetical Axis victory in World War II has been discussed in the context of its portrayal of The Holocaust? Source: see https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-319-52575-4_6 and https://doi.org/10.1080%2F21504857.2017.1355824
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:36, 12 August 2024 (UTC).
New enough and large enough expansion. QPQ present. I am having trouble with institutional access to the journal sources, but they would belong in those specific articles. Did some copyediting. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 17:54, 1 September 2024 (UTC)- Quote from first source: "
This is not to say that such a view should be taken unproblematically; the work of Dirk A. Moses, Robert Eaglestone and Dan Stone has been especially influential in highlighting the distorting effects of using the Holocaust as a paradigm for other occasions of violence. [...] For example, in Brin’s The Life Eaters, Chris is informed by Loki – who has by now deflected to the American side of the war – of the existence of camps ‘in Africa and on the great plains of Russia’, where ‘terrible magics are being made, and terrible woe’. Loki concedes that he rescued the first victims from Europe, and the relocation of these sites to non-European spaces suggest that the horrors that they represent have also shifted into a global context. This reading is underscored earlier in the story ...
"[1] - Quote from second source: "
By placing Nazism within a narrative dominated by cultural myths, Brin, perhaps inadvertently, underscores the way in which Nazism has come to occupy a position in our cultural imagination that is akin to that of these mythological heroes.
"[2] - It looks good, just adding these for editors who can't access the sources. Rjjiii (talk) 17:03, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
