Description
Book SynopsisAt 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 ReviewHolocaust 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 ContentsPreface 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
