UID:
edocfu_9959128035502883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780813548159
Content:
After Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studiesùthe intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature. As experts in the study of literature and culture, the scholars in this collection examine the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and reveal how writersùwhether they write as witnesses to the Holocaust or at an imaginative distance from the Nazi genocideùarticulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction, between event and expression, and between the condition of life endured in atrocity and the hope of a meaningful existence. What imaginative literature brings to the study of the Holocaust is an ability to test the limits of language and its conventions. After Representation? moves beyond the suspicion of representation and explores the changing meaning of the Holocaust for different generations, audiences, and contexts.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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PREFACE --
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Introduction. On the Cultural Continuities of Literary Representation /
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PART ONE. Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written? --
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1. The Holocaust, History Writing, and the Role of Fiction /
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2. Nostalgia and the Holocaust /
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3. Death in Language /
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4. Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism /
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PART TWO. A Question for Aesthetics? --
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5. Nazi Aesthetics in Historical Context /
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6. Writing Ruins /
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7. “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem” /
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PART THREE. How Does Culture Influence Memory? --
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8. The Holocaust and the Economy of Memory, from Bellow to Morrison /
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9. “And in the Distance You Hear Music, a Band Playing” /
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10. Reading Heart of Darkness after the Holocaust /
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11. Theorizing the Perpetrator in Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow /
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CONTRIBUTORS’ BIOGRAPHIES --
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INDEX
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.36019/9780813548159
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813548159
