This book examines reactions to three films that deal with the Holocaust, and considers what those reactions reveal about the place of the Holocaust in America.</div>
The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture
โ Scribed by Richard Crownshaw (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 311
- Series
- Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
This bold intervention into the debate over the memory and 'post-memory' of the Holocaust both scrutinizes recent academic theories of post-Holocaust trauma and provides a new reading of literary and architectural memory texts related to the Holocaust.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Theory after Memory....Pages 1-40
On Reading Sebald: The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz ....Pages 41-81
Holocaust Memory and the Air War: W. G. Sebaldโs Luftkrieg und Literatur (โAir War and Literature: Zรผrich Lecturesโ)....Pages 82-116
Grey Zones of Memory?....Pages 117-144
Reading the Perpetrator: Bernhard Schlinkโs Der Vorleser (The Reader) and Die Heimkehr (Homecoming) ....Pages 145-181
Countermonumental Memory....Pages 182-204
Photography and Memory in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum....Pages 205-238
Conclusion....Pages 239-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-297
โฆ Subjects
Media Studies; History of World War II and the Holocaust; European Literature; European History; Literature, general; Building Types and Functions
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