National responses to the Holocaust : national identity and public memory / edited by Jennifer Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Jennifer, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Historiography.

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

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in art.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Art.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 203 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2014]

Summary:

The Holocaust is an international event, but the brutal crimes happened in specific places and are remembered, to a large degree, in various national discourses. The essays in this book examine the complex and often ambiguous relationship between national identity and the legacy of the Holocaust in countries including Lithuania, Poland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, the United States, and Israel. Specificity about place and national context matters very much when we talk and write about the Holocaust, and this book takes up important questions about the relationship between the traumatic past and our sense of place, language, and cultural or political identity in the post-Holocaust world.

Contents:

Introduction / Jennifer Taylor

PART I: EUROPE: LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST

Staging Austria's Past in Contemporary Vienna: Robert Schindel's 2002 Film Adaptation of Geburtig / Christina Guenther

From le genocide to la shoah: Changing Patterns in Documentary Representations of the Holocaust in France / Ferzina Banaji

Death in Vienna: Horrible Modernity in Michael Haneke's The Seventh Continent / Jennifer Taylor

Lithuanian Nationalism and the Holocaust: Public Expressions of Memory in Museums and Sites of Memory in Vilnius, Lithuania / Edna Kantorovitz Southard / Robert Southard

Soil of Annihilation: Czeslaw Milosz's Pastoral Poland and the Holocaust / Donna Coffey

Disgrace and Torment: The Holocaust in Zofia Nalkowska's Medallions / Zofia Lesinska

PART II: THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL: LIVING WITH THE PAST IN NEW LANDS

Vulnerability in Spielberg's America: Schindler's List and the Ethic of Commerce / Sarah Hagelin

The Erotics of Auschwitz: An American Tale / Phyllis Lassner

Reading Holocaust Fiction at the End of the Twentieth Century: Jakob the Liar and Life Is Beautiful / Jennifer Taylor

Homecoming Deconstucted in Israeli Holocaust Literature / Iris Milner

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Taylor, Jennifer, 1961- Reading Holocaust Fiction at the End of the Twentieth Century : Jakob the Liar and Life is Beautiful.

ISBN:

9781611490565

1611490561

OCLC:

823044641