Holocaust and Hope : Literature, Testimony, Media.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartman, Geoffrey H., Author.

Series:

Lit Z Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2026.

Summary:

A final work by one of our major critics, contemplating how acts of distant witnessing can continue in future generations.

Contents:

Cover

Series Editors

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: The Limits of Realism and the Future of Witness

1. Shoah and Intellectual Witness

2. Holocaust and Hope

3. Words Not from on High

4. Wounded Time: The Holocaust, Jedwabne, and Disaster Writing

5. Elie Wiesel and the Morality of Fiction

6. Afterword to Lodz Ghetto

7. Unbearable Truths

8. Breaking with Every Star: On Literary Knowledge

9. Learning from Survivors

10. Public Memory and Its Discontents

11. Shoah Literature: The Universal Aspect

12. Defining a Living Genre: The Survivor Testimony

13. The Ethics of Witness: An Interview with Ian Balfour and Rebecca Comay

14. Terror and Art: A Meditation

15. Future Memory: Reflections on Holocaust Testimony and Yale's Fortunoff Video Archive

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Series List.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5315-1223-2

OCLC:

1559158322