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At an extreme, all Holocaust representation must face the test of whether its referent would not be more authentically expressed by silence-that is, by the absence of representation.

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Holocaust Representation tackles the thorny subject of ethics and art as they bear on works commemorating or referring to the Holocaust. -- James Malpas Art Newspaper

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Art Within The Limits
Part I: Image and Fact: The Problem of Holocaust Representation
Chapter 1. Writing the Holocaust: Toward the Condition of History
Chapter 2. Holocaust Texts and the Blurred Genres
Chapter 3. The Limits of Representation and the Representation of Limits
Chapter 4. The Facts of Fiction: Three Case Studies in Holocaust Writing
Chapter 5. The Importance of Holocaust Misrepresentation
Part II: Eye and Mind: Reflecting the Holocaust
Chapter 6. The Arts of History
Chapter 7. Translating the Holocaust: For Whom Does One Write?
Chapter 8. The Post-Holocaust vs. the Postmodern: Evil Inside and Outside History
Chapter 9. Art Worship and Its Images
Index

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 10 November 2003
      ISBN-13 9780801877452
      978-0801877452
      ISBN-10 0801877458
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      Literary theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      At an extreme, all Holocaust representation must face the test of whether its referent would not be more authentically expressed by silence-that is, by the absence of representation.

      Trade Review
      Holocaust Representation tackles the thorny subject of ethics and art as they bear on works commemorating or referring to the Holocaust. -- James Malpas Art Newspaper

      Table of Contents

      Preface and Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Art Within The Limits
      Part I: Image and Fact: The Problem of Holocaust Representation
      Chapter 1. Writing the Holocaust: Toward the Condition of History
      Chapter 2. Holocaust Texts and the Blurred Genres
      Chapter 3. The Limits of Representation and the Representation of Limits
      Chapter 4. The Facts of Fiction: Three Case Studies in Holocaust Writing
      Chapter 5. The Importance of Holocaust Misrepresentation
      Part II: Eye and Mind: Reflecting the Holocaust
      Chapter 6. The Arts of History
      Chapter 7. Translating the Holocaust: For Whom Does One Write?
      Chapter 8. The Post-Holocaust vs. the Postmodern: Evil Inside and Outside History
      Chapter 9. Art Worship and Its Images
      Index

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