After representation? : the Holocaust, literature, and culture / edited by R. Clifton Spargo, Robert M. Ehrenreich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spargo, R. Clifton.

Ehrenreich, Robert M.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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).

Physical Description:

xii, 242 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2010]

Summary:

"After Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studies - the intersection of culture and memory in artistic expression, particularly within literature. What imaginative literature brings to the study of the Holocaust is an ability to test the limits of language and its conventions. After Representation? explores the changing meaning of the Holocaust for different generations, audiences, and contexts."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Part 1 Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written?

1 The Holocaust, History Writing, and the Role of Fiction / Geoffrey Hartman 25

2 Nostalgia and the Holocaust / Sara R. Horowitz 41

3 Death in Language: From Mado's Mourning to the Act of Writing / Petra Schweitzer 59

4 Oskar Rosenfeld And Historiographic Realism (including Sex, Shit, and Status) / Berel Lang 75

Part 2 A Question for Aesthetics?

5 Nazi Aesthetics in Historical Context / James E. Young 89

6 Writing Ruins: The Anachronistic Aesthetics of Andr ̌Schwarz-Bart / Michael Rothberg 99

7 "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem": The Poetry of Forgetful Memory in Israel and Palestine / Michael Bernard-Donals 119

Part 3 How Does Culture Influence Memory?

8 The Holocaust and the Economy of Memory, from Bellow to Morrison (The Technique of Figurative Allegory) / R. Clifton Spargo 137

9 "And in the Distance You Hear Music, a Band Playing": Reflections on Chaos and Order in Literature and Testimony / Sidney Bolkosky 190

10 Reading Heart of Darkness after the Holocaust / Robert Eaglestone 190

11 Theorizing the Perpetrator in Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow / Erin McGlothlin 210.

Notes:

"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813545899

9780813545905

0813545897

0813545900

OCLC:

270231704