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)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2010.

Summary:

After Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studiesùthe intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature. As experts in the study of literature and culture, the scholars in this collection examine the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and reveal how writersùwhether they write as witnesses to the Holocaust or at an imaginative distance from the Nazi genocideùarticulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction, between event and expression, and between the condition of life endured in atrocity and the hope of a meaningful existence. What imaginative literature brings to the study of the Holocaust is an ability to test the limits of language and its conventions. After Representation? moves beyond the suspicion of representation and explores the changing meaning of the Holocaust for different generations, audiences, and contexts.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Introduction: On the Cultural Continuities of Literary Representation

Table of Contents

Part One: Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written?

Chapter 1: The Holocaust, History Writing, and the Role of Fiction

Chapter 2: Nostalgia and the Holocaust

Chapter 3: Death in Language: From Mado's Mourning to the Act of Writing

Chapter 4: Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism: (including Sex, Shit, and Status)

Part Two: A Question for Aesthetics?

Chapter 5: Nazi Aesthetics in Historical Context

Chapter 6: Writing Ruins: The Anachronistic Aesthetics of André Schwarz-Bart

Chapter 7: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem": The Poetry of Forgetful Memory in Israel and Palestine

Part Three: How Does Culture Influence Memory?

Chapter 8: The Holocaust and the Economy of Memory, from Bellow to Morrison: (The Technique of Figurative Allegory)

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

Chapter 10: Reading Heart of Darkness after the Holocaust

Chapter 11: Theorizing the Perpetrator in Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow

Contributor's Biographies

Index.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-49351-8

9786613588746

0-8135-4815-2

OCLC:

1121052428