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In the modern age, post-Holocaust studies should embrace the variety of media and cultural channels available to enable the comprehension of the current population. When implementing these channels, individuals have to take into account a holistic approach to ensure all aspects of this area are integrated to ensure an inclusive understanding of the Holocaust. Post-Holocaust Studies in a Modern Context is a critical scholarly resource that explores the impact of post-Holocaust issues on current social issues across the globe such as the Western approach to immigration and the shaping and reshaping of national ethos across the globe. Featuring a wide range of topics such as millennials, cultural heritage, artistry, educational programs, and historical experience, this book is a vital resource for students, professors, researchers, and readers of popular social science interested in the fate of the Jewish people and the sociological forces that influence the post-WWII era.
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'Which writer today is not a writer of the Holocaust?' asked the late Imre Kertesz, Hungarian survivor and novelist, in his Nobel acceptance speech: 'one does not have to choose the Holocaust as one's subject to detect the broken voice that has dominated modern European art for decades'. Robert Eaglestone attends to this broken voice in literature in order to explore the meaning of the Holocaust in the contemporary world, arguing, again following Kertesz, that the Holocaust will 'remain through culture, which is really the vessel of memory'. Drawing on the thought of Hannah Arendt, Eaglestone identifies and develops five concepts-the public secret, evil, stasis, disorientalism, and kitsch-in a range of texts by significant writers (including Kazuo Ishiguro, Jonathan Littell, Imre Kertesz, W. G. Sebald, and Joseph Conrad) as well as in work by victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust and of atrocities in Africa. He explores the interweaving of complicity, responsibility, temporality, and the often problematic powers of narrative which make up some part of the legacy of the Holocaust.
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• Introduction.-
• Section I: On the Humanity of Nazis: Establishing (Un-)Commonality with the Reader.- Chapter One: Nazis in Society.- Chapter Two: Subverting Connections with the Reader.- Chapter Three: Drawing the Reader into the Narrative.-
• Section II: Between the Man and the (Nazi) Symbol.- Introduction.- Chapter Four: Cogs in the Machine: Testimonies of Holocaust Perpetrators.- Chapter Five: Adolf Hitler in Fiction and Memory.- Conclusion.- Conclusion: Returning to the Role of the Reader.- Bibliography.- Index.
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This study provides a comprehensive analysis of representations of Holocaust perpetrators in literature. Such texts, often rather controversially, seek to undo the myth of pure evil that surrounds the Holocaust and to reconstruct the perpetrator in more human ("banal") terms. Following this line of thought, protagonists frequently place emphasis on the contextual or situational factors that led up to the genocide. A significant consequence of this is the impact that it has on the reader, who is thereby drawn into the narrative as a potential perpetrator who could, in similar circumstances, have acted in similar ways. The tensions that this creates, especially in relation to the construction of empathy, constitutes a major focus of this work. Making use of in excess of sixty primary sources, this work explores fictional accounts of Holocaust perpetration as well as Nazi memoirs. It will be of interest to anyone working in the broad areas of Holocaust literature and/or perpetrator studies.
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• Introduction Prologue: Ghostwriting the Holocaust: The Ghost Writer, The Diary, The Kindly Ones, and Me Section One: Psychoanalytic Listening and Fictions of the Holocaust
• 1. Voyeurism, Complicated Mourning, and the Fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl
• 2. Forced Confessions: Subject Position, Framing, and the "Art" of Spiegelman's Maus
• 3. Aryeh Lev Stollman's Far Euphrates: Re-picturing the Pre-Memory Moment Section Two: Golems, Ghosts, Idols, and Messiahs: Complicated Mourning and the Inter-textual Construction of a Jewish Symptom
• 4. Bruno Schulz, the Messiah, and Ghost/writing the Past
• 5. A Jewish History of Blocked Mourning and Love
• 6. See Under: Mourning Section Three: Mourning Becomes the Nations: Styron, Schlink, Sebald
• 7. Blacks, Jews, and Southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice
• 8. (Re)Reading the Holocaust from a German Point of View: Berhard Schlink's The Reader
• 9. Mourning and Melancholia in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz Epilogue: Holocaust, Apartheid, and the Slaughter of Animals: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Cora Diamond's "Difficulty of Reality" Notes Bibliography Index.
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Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the epistemological, psychological, and ethical issues underlying Holocaust fiction, Emily Miller Budick examines the subjective experiences of fantasy, projection, and repression manifested in Holocaust fiction and in the reader's encounter with it. Considering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.
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• Contents
• Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction Current research
• 1.
• A Genre of Rupture: The Literary Language of the Holocaust Victoria Aarons
• 2.
• Questions of Truth in Holocaust Memory and Testimony Sue Vice
• 3.
• After Epic: Adorno's Scream and the Shadows of Lyric David Miller
• 4.
• Relationships to Realism in Post-Holocaust Fiction: Conflicted Realism and the Counterfactual Historical Novel Jenni Adams
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• Theory and the Ethics of Holocaust Representation Michael Bernard-Donals
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• 'Don't you know anything?' Childhood and the Holocaust Adrienne Kertzer
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• Holocaust Postmemory: W. G. Sebald and Gerhard Richter Brett Ashley Kaplan and Fernando Herrero-Matoses
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• Narrative Perspective and the Holocaust Perpetrator: Edgar Hilsenrath's The Nazi and the Barber and Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones Erin McGlothlin
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• The Holocaust and the Taboo Matthew Boswell
• 10. Holocaust Literature: Comparative Approaches Stef Craps
• 11. Depoliticizing and Repoliticizing Holocaust Memory Richard Crownshaw New Directions in Holocaust Literary Studies Annotated bibliography Glossary of Major Terms and Concepts Index.
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The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of Holocaust writing. At its centre is a series of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars within the field: these address genre-specific issues such as the question of biographical and historical truth in Holocaust testimony, as well as broader topics including the politics of Holocaust representation and the validity of comparative approaches to the Holocaust in literature and criticism. The volume includes a substantial section detailing new and emergent trends within the literary study of the Holocaust, a concise glossary of major critical terminology, and an annotated bibliography of relevant research material. Featuring original essays by: Victoria Aarons, Jenni Adams, Michael Bernard-Donals, Matthew Boswell, Stef Craps, Richard Crownshaw, Brett Ashley Kaplan and Fernando Herrero-Matoses, Adrienne Kertzer, Erin McGlothlin, David Miller, and Sue Vice.
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• Introduction: Mapping a blind spot: the German-Jewish Holocaust novel of the first generation
• 1. An absence in context: Holocaust representation in testimony, scholarship, and literature
• 2. Writing of broken time(s): H.G. Adler, Eine Reise, Die unsichtbare Wand
• 3. The unhoused past: Elisabeth Augustin, Auswege-- Jenny Aloni, Der Wartesaal
• 4. The past encrypted: Erich Fried, Ein Soldat und ein Madchen
• 5. Design from debris: Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Tynset, Masante
• Conclusion: What comes 'after': the 'postmemory' Holocaust novel.
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Encrypting the Past puts forward the interpretative category of the first-generation German-Jewish Holocaust novel and examines its representational strategies. With reference to works by H.G. Adler, Jenny Aloni, Elisabeth Augustin, Erich Fried, and Wolfgang Hildesheimer, and a concluding section on W.G. Sebald, it shows how Holocaust literature was being written decades before postwar authors such as Sebald were credited with having found new ways of reflecting the unspeakable. It demonstrates that, before the theoretical debate over the fundamental representability of the Holocaust was even fully under way, first-generation authors were already translating un-narratable trauma into a literary strategy of un-narrating: a strategy of encrypting the Holocaust into the form and structure of their texts. The implications of treating these writers as a set, and their body of work as a hitherto unacknowledged category of Holocaust fiction, go well beyond drawing attention to a number of important but critically neglected authors. This study frames the analysis of first-generation narrative strategies in the broader debate on the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust writing. In revealing how certain kinds of testimony have been privileged above others in international Holocaust studies, it raises questions of a more general nature concerning canon formation and our theoretical responses to the Holocaust. In considering foremost among these responses the theory of deconstruction and trauma theory, it finally invites a re-examination of the relationship between the (post-)modern and trauma.
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• Introduction Alan Rosen-- Part I. Wartime Victim Writing:
• 1. Wartime victim writing in Eastern Europe David G. Roskies--
• 2. Wartime victim writing in Western Europe David Patterson-- Part II. Postwar Responses:
• 3. The Holocaust and Italian literature Robert S. C. Gordon--
• 4. German literature and the Holocaust Stuart Taberner--
• 5. Hebrew literature of the Holocaust Sheila E. Jelen--
• 6. The Holocaust and postwar Yiddish literature Jan Schwarz--
• 7. The Holocaust in Russian literature Leona Toker--
• 8. The Holocaust in English language literatures S. Lillian Kremer--
• 9. Polish literature on the Holocaust Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska--
• 10. Hungarian Holocaust literature Rita Horvath--
• 11. French literature and the Holocaust Jeffrey Mehlman-- Part III. Other Approaches:
• 12. Oral memoir and the Shoah Alessandro Portelli--
• 13. Songs of the Holocaust Shirli Gilbert--
• 14. Sephardic literary responses to the Holocaust Judith Roumani--
• 15. Anthologizing the Holocaust Alan Rosen--
• 16. The Historian's Anvil, the Novelist's Crucible Eric J. Sundquist.
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During and in the aftermath of the dark period of the Holocaust, writers across Europe and America sought to express their feelings and experiences through their writings. This book provides a comprehensive account of these writings through essays from expert scholars, covering a wide geographic, linguistic, thematic and generic range of materials. Such an overview is particularly appropriate at a time when the corpus of Holocaust literature has grown to immense proportions and when guidance is needed in determining a canon of essential readings, a context to interpret them, and a paradigm for the evolution of writing on the Holocaust. The expert contributors to this volume, who negotiate the literature in the original languages, provide insight into the influence of national traditions and the importance of language, especially but not exclusively Yiddish and Hebrew, to the literary response arising from the Holocaust.
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• The Holocaust in the stories of Elie Wiesel / Thomas A. Idinopulos
• The problematics of Holocaust literature / Alvin H. Rosenfeld
• Tragedy and the Holocaust / Robert Skloot
• Holocaust documentary fiction : novelist as eyewitness / James E. Young
• Holocaust and autobiography : Wiesel, Friedländer, Pisar / Joseph Sungolowsky
• The Holocaust / Deborah E. Lipstadt
• Primo Levi and the language of witness / Michael Tager
• The utopian space of a nightmare : The diary of Anne Frank / Barbara Chiarello
• The literature of Auschwitz / Lawrence L. Langer
• Comedic distance in Holocaust literature / Mark Cory
• Public memory and its discontents / Geoffrey H. Hartman
• Two Holocaust voices : Cynthia Ozick and Art Spiegelman / Lawrence L. Langer
• The Holocaust and literary studies / Jeffrey M. Peck
• Rafael Seligmann's Rubinsteins Versteigerung : the German-Jewish family novel before and after the Holocaust / Ritchie Robertson
• Memorizing memory / Amy Hungerford.

Examines the literature that marks the greatest tragedy of the twentieth century and offers critical analysis by such contributors as Thomas A. Idinopulos, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, and Amy Hungerford.
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• Notes on Contributors - Introduction - Holocaust-genres and the Turn to History-- B.Lang - Holocaust Writing in Context: Italy 1945 - 1947-- R.Gordon - Representations of the Holocaust in Women's Testimony-- A.Hardman - Between Repulsion and Attraction: George Steiner's Post-Holocaust Fiction-- B.Cheyette - The Holocaust as Seen Through the Eyes of Children --A.Reiter - From Behind the Bars of Quotation Marks: Emmanuel Levina's (Non)-Representation of the Holocaust-- R.Eaglestone - Idioms for the Unrepresentable: Post-war Fiction and the Shoah-- A.Parry - The Demidenko Affair and Contemporary Holocaust Fiction-- S.Vice - Is Aharon Appelfeld an Holocaust Writer?-- L.I.Yudkin - The Mirror of Memory: Patrick Modiano's La Place de L'Etoile and Dora Bruder-- S.Khalifa - 'Il n'y a qu'une Esphce Humaine': Between Duras and Antelme-- M.Crowley.
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Whether through its frequent presence in the news, or in history books, documentaries and fiction, the Holocaust is an event that refuses to go away. It is both a point of reference in the past and a point of moral interdiction and imperative in the present. Yet how is the modern reader to imagine the unimaginable and relate it to the present? The essays in this book examine the problems that underly the representation in literature of these poignant and horrific events.
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