Third-generation Holocaust representation : trauma, history, and memory / Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aarons, Victoria, author.

Berger, Alan L., 1939- author.

Series:

Cultural expressions of World War II

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Psychic trauma in literature.

Memory in literature.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish well into the twenty-first century-gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of post-Holocaust writers. Aarons and Berger address evolving notions of "postmemory" the intergenerational and ongoing transmission of trauma, issues of Jewish cultural identity, inherited memory, the psychological tensions of post-Holocaust Jewish identity, the characteristic tropes of memory and the personalized narrative voice, issues of generational dislocation and anxiety, the recurrent antagonisms of assimilation and historical alienation, the imaginative re-creation and reconstruction of the past, and the future of Holocaust memory and representation. Book jacket.

Contents:

On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation

The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation

Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost

Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists

Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma

Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma

"There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810134096

0810134098

9780810134102

0810134101

OCLC:

948339688