Traumatic realism : the demands of Holocaust representation / Michael Rothberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothberg, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

New ed.

Other Title:

Demands of Holocaust representation

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How to approach the Holocaust and its relationship to late twentieth-century society? While some stress the impossibility of comprehending this event, others attempt representations in forms as different as the nonfiction novel (and Hollywood blockbuster) Schindler's List, the documentary Shoah, and the comic book Maus. This problem is at the center of Michael Rothberg's book, a focused account of the psychic, intellectual, and cultural aftermath of the Holocaust. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Michael Rothberg puts forth an overarching framework for understanding representations of th

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Demands of Holocaust Representation; Part I: MODERNISM ""AFTER AUSCHWITZ""; 1. After Adorno: Culture in the Wake of Catastrophe; 2. Before Auschwitz: Maurice Blanchot, From Now On; Part II: REALISM IN ""THE CONCENTRATIONARY UNIVERSE""; 3. ""The Barbed Wire of the Postwar World"": Ruth Klüger's Traumatic Realism; 4. Unbearable Witness: Charlotte Delbo's Traumatic Timescapes; Part III: POSTMODERNISM, OR ""THE YEAR OF THE HOLOCAUST""; 5. Reading Jewish: Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, and Holocaust Postmemory

6. ""Touch an Event to Begin"": Americanizing the HolocaustConclusion. After the ""Final Solution"": From the ""Jewish Question"" to Jewish Questioning; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-313) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9083-9

OCLC:

476094860