The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture / Richard Crownshaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crownshaw, Richard.

Series:

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies

Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

Physical Description:

xiii, 297 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

"This bold intervention into the debate over the memory and post-memory of the Holocaust both scrutinises recent academic theories of post-Holocaust trauma and provides a new reading of literary and architectural memory texts related to the Holocaust"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Theories of Post-Holocaust Memory and Trauma * German Counter-Monuments * Theoretical Tendencies: Ways of (Re)Reading the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum * Holocaust Memory and American Trauma: The Literature of Paul Auster and Jonathan Safran Foer * Germany, Memory and Victim Discourse * Bernhard Schlink and the Limits of Empathy * Theoretical Anticipations: W.G. Sebalds The Emigrants and Austerlitz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230581876

0230581870

OCLC:

670238257