Jewish Identity in Western Pop Culture: The Holocaust and Trauma Through Modernity

✍ Scribed by Jon Stratton (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 297
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Producing the “Jewish Problem”: Othering the Jews and Homogenizing Europe....Pages 9-29
Life on the Edge: Liminality and the (European) Jews....Pages 31-52
It Almost Needn’t Have Been the Germans: The State, Colonial Violence, and the Holocaust....Pages 53-76
The Wall at the End of the World: Zionism, Colonialism, Messianism....Pages 77-96
The Banality of Representation: Generation, Holocaust, Signification, and Empire of the Senseless....Pages 97-115
Trauma and Memory in the Post-Holocaust West....Pages 117-140
Before Holocaust Memory: Making Sense of Trauma between Postmemory and Cultural Memory....Pages 141-164
Why Were the Sixties So Jewish?....Pages 165-191
Punk, Jews, and the Holocaust: The English Story....Pages 193-219
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: What Being Jewish Has to Do with It ....Pages 221-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-294

✦ Subjects

Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Regional and Cultural Studies; North American Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Judaism

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