1998/09/01 by Arlene Stein · 58 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · Psychology · #Rhetoric and Communication Studies #Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy #Discourse Analysis in Language Studies #The Holocaust #Metaphor #Appropriation #Rhetoric #Framing (construction) #Sociology #Social movement #Movement (music) #The Symbolic #Battle #Gender studies #Aesthetics #Media studies #Politics #Political science #Epistemology #History #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Law #Linguistics #Art
paper · doi:10.2307/1389562
published in Sociological Perspectives 41(3), 519-540 (SAGE Publishing)
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Fifty years after the end of World War II, the Holocaust is being utilized as a symbolic resource by US social movements. This article investigates social movement “framing” processes, looking at the use of Holocaust rhetoric and imagery by social movement organizations and actors. I explore how competing movements, the lesbian/gay movement and the Christian right, battle over the same symbolic territory, and how the Holocaust frame is deployed by each. Two forms of symbolic appropriation in relation to the Holocaust are documented: metaphor creation and revisionism.