Format:
1 Online-Ressource (IX, 263 Seiten)
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illustrations, figures, tables
ISBN:
0810134098
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081013411X
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0810134101
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9780810134096
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9780810134119
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9780810134102
Series Statement:
Cultural expressions of world war II
Content:
Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish—gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of post-Holocaust writers. In negotiating the complex thematic imperatives and narrative conceits of the literature of these writers, this bold new work examines those structures, ironies, disjunctions, and tensions that produce a literature lamenting loss for a generation removed spatially and temporally from the extended trauma of the Holocaust. Aarons and Berger address evolving notions of “postmemory”; the intergenerational transmission of trauma; inherited memory; the psychological tensions of post-Holocaust Jewish identity; tropes of memory and the personalized narrative voice; generational dislocation and anxiety; the recurrent antagonisms of assimilation and alienation; the imaginative reconstruction of the past; and the future of Holocaust memory and representation
Content:
On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust
Note:
eng
Additional Edition:
Print version Third-Generation Holocaust Representation, Trauma, History, and Memory Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Judenvernichtung
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Angehöriger
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Enkel
URL:
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URL:
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
Author information:
Berger, Alan L. 1939-
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