After testimony : the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust narrative for the future / edited by Jakob Lothe, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and James Phelan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lothe, Jakob.

Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939-

Phelan, James, 1951-

Series:

Theory and interpretation of narrative series

Theory and interpretation of narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Historiography.

Physical Description:

ix, 380 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2012]

Summary:

After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future collects sixteen essays written with the awareness that we are on the verge of a historical shift in our relation to the Third Reich's programmatic genocide. Soon there will be no living survivors of the Holocaust, and therefore people not directly connected to the event must assume the full responsibility for representing it. The contributors believe that this shift has broad consequences for narratives of the Holocaust. By virtue of being "after" the accounts of survivors, storytellers must find their own ways of coming to terms with the historical reality that those testimonies have tried to communicate. The ethical and aesthetic dimensions of these stories will be especially crucial to their effectiveness. Guided by these principles and employing the tools of contemporary narrative theory, the contributors analyze a wide range of Holocaust narratives-fictional and nonfictional, literary and filmic-for the dual purpose of offering fresh insights and identifying issues and strategies likely to be significant in the future. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Anniken Greve, Jeremy Hawthorn, Marianne Hirsch, Irene Kacandes, Phillipe Mesnard, J. Hillis Miller, Michael Rothberg, Beatrice Sandberg, Anette H. Storeide, Anne Thelle, and Janet Walker. Book jacket.

Contents:

Imre Kertész's fatelessness: fiction as testimony / J. Hillis Miller

Challenges for the successor generations of German-Jewish authors in Germany / Beatrice Sandberg

Recent literature confronting the past: France and beyond / Philippe Mesnard, translated by Terence Cave

Performing a perpetrator as witness : Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes / Susan Rubin Suleiman

The ethics and aesthetics of backward narration in Martin Amis's Time's arrow / James Phelan

The face-to-face encounter in Holocaust narrative / Jeremy Hawthorn

Knowing little, adding nothing: the ethics and aesthetics of remembering in Espen Søbye's Kathe, always lived in Norway / Anniken Greve

"When facts are scarce": authenticating strategies in writing by children of survivors / Irene Kacandes

Objects of return / Marianne Hirsch

Narrative, memory, and visual image: W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur and Austerlitz / Jakob Lothe

Which narrative of Auschwitz? A narrative analysis of Laurence Rees's documentary Auschwitz: the Nazis and "the final solution" / Anette H. Storeide

Moving testimonies: "unhomed geography" and the Holocaust documentary of return / Janet Walker

From Auschwitz to the Temple Mount: binding and unbinding the Israeli narrative / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi

The melancholy generation: Grossman's Book of interior grammar / Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan

Fractured relations: the multidirectional Holocaust memory of Caryl Phillips / Michael Rothberg

Hiroshima and the Holocaust : tales of war and defeat in Japan and Germany: a contrastive perspective / Anne Thelle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814251829

081425182X

9780814211762

0814211763

9780814292778

0814292771

OCLC:

755080547