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Holocaust narratives : trauma, memory and identity across generations / Thorsten Wilhelm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilhelm, Thorsten, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in comparative literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Jewish authors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Collective memory in literature.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction : Holocaust traumata and their generational legacies and emanations. Generations : structural frameworks
- The dialogical nature of (collective) trauma
- Trauma theory : concepts, implications, outlooks
- Moving trauma theory into the generation of postmemory
- Living in the aftermath : forms of trauma
- Insterstices between individual and cultural trauma
- Trauma as connective force
- Structure of the book
- Narrating the inexpressible : Wiesel's Night as testimonial trendsetter. God on the gallows : doublings of faith
- Trauma in the mirror : identities in the face of trauma
- Paradigmatic accuser : connecting audiences
- Witness in search of meaning and silence
- Surviving and remembering : representing trauma in the present
- The truth of fiction in Louis Begley's Wartime lies. Narrated identities : fictionalization of self and its actual facts
- Negotiating fact and fiction in meaningful representation for the audience
- The creation of meaning and its passing ownership
- (R/De-)construction of narrative and real identity
- Asserting control by narrative means
- Rescuing one's memory from past traumata : Cheryl Pearl Sucher's The rescue of memory. Past and present : making a stance of one's own
- Photographs and other stories : past negatives and healing trauma
- Generational vonnections : approaching first- and second-generation trauma
- First-hand trauma in second-generation writing
- Emancipation through embedding : establishing a meaningful presence of the past
- Meaningful incorporation of past trauma into present narratives
- Encaustic memories : second-generation assertions in Rosenbaum's Second hand smoke. Traumatic impositions : connecting first- and second-generation trauma
- Encountering the ghosts : generational connections to the past
- Close contact : breaking down past and present distinctions
- Imposing trauma : between filial rage and generational forgiveness
- Individual and cultural authorship over trauma stories
- Damaged goods : navigating parental trauma and one's own
- Exclusion from and inclusion into parental narratives
- Remembering, letting go, and incorporating the past into the present
- Progressive and tragic narrative outlook in overcoming trauma
- Connecting worlds : Narrative networks in Horn's The world to come. Generational temporal connections
- Choosing narrative, choosing life
- Linguistic connections to translated pasts
- Storied bridges : connecting present, past, and future worlds
- Meaningful narratives : paper bridges between (past) trauma and (present) meanings
- Connecting worlds : people as stories
- Creating a future from the past
- Stories as narrative intersections between generations
- When memory fails : fiction as history in Everything Is illuminated. Narrative trajectories : limitations of fictional meaning creation
- Generational positions : midrashic engagements and circular historicity
- (Re-)Constructing the past : interrelations between the place and its stories
- Language and silence : connective phantasmagorias of meaning
- Workable terminologies : integrating past-tensed facts
- Fictional records : tracking meanings between past and present
- Narrative realities : permeating events and stories
- Imaginative representation : memory's narrative dependencies
- Generational catharsis in dyadic, generational encounters
- Conclusion : the future of trauma.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781003087540
- 100308754X
- Publisher Number:
- 99985695411
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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