Description
Book SynopsisExplores one of the major issues in Holocaust studies - the intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature. This work examines the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and reveals how writers articulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction, and between event and expression.
Trade Review"Bringing together some of the best known thinkers in the field of Holocaust literary studies, this volume will quickly become required reading for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and scholars of the Shoah."— Irene Kacandes, co-editor of Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust
"A provocative and engaging volume."
— Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Part One. Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written? The Holocaust, History Writing, and the Role of Fiction
Nostalgia and the Holocaust
Death in Language
Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism (including Sex, Shit, and Status)
Part Two. A Question for Aesthetics? Nazi Aesthetics in Historical Context
Writing Ruins
"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem"
Part Three. Does Culture Influence Memory? The Holocaust and the Economy of Memory, from Bellow to Morrison (The Technique of Figurative Allegory)
"And in the Distance You Hear Music, a Band Playing"
Reading Heart of Darkness after the Holocaust
Theorizing the Perpetrator in Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow
