| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 380 pages) : illustrations |
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Theory and interpretation of narrative |
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Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
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| Contents |
Imre Kertész's fatelessness : fiction as testimony / J. Hillis Miller -- Challenges for the successor generations of German-Jewish authors in Germany / Beatrice Sandberg -- Recent literature confronting the past : France and beyond / Philippe Mesnard, translated by Terence Cave -- Performing a perpetrator as witness : Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- The ethics and aesthetics of backward narration in Martin Amis's Time's arrow / James Phelan -- The face-to-face encounter in Holocaust narrative / Jeremy Hawthorn -- Knowing little, adding nothing : the ethics and aesthetics of remembering in Espen Søbye's Kathe, always lived in Norway / Anniken Greve -- "When facts are scarce" : authenticating strategies in writing by children of survivors / Irene Kacandes -- Objects of return / Marianne Hirsch -- Narrative, memory, and visual image : W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur and Austerlitz / Jakob Lothe -- Which narrative of Auschwitz? A narrative analysis of Laurence Rees's documentary Auschwitz : the Nazis and "the final solution" / Anette H. Storeide -- Moving testimonies : "unhomed geography" and the Holocaust documentary of return / Janet Walker -- From Auschwitz to the Temple Mount : binding and unbinding the Israeli narrative / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- The melancholy generation : Grossman's Book of interior grammar / Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan -- Fractured relations : the multidirectional Holocaust memory of Caryl Phillips / Michael Rothberg -- Hiroshima and the Holocaust : tales of war and defeat in Japan and Germany-a contrastive perspective / Anne Thelle |
| Summary |
"After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future collects sixteen essays written with the awareness that we are on the verge of a historical shift in our relation to the Third Reich's programmatic genocide. Soon there will be no living survivors of the Holocaust, and therefore people not directly connected to the event must assume the full responsibility for representing it. The contributors believe that this shift has broad consequences for narratives of the Holocaust. By virtue of being "after" the accounts of survivors, storytellers must find their own ways of coming to terms with the historical reality that those testimonies have tried to communicate. The ethical and aesthetic dimensions of these stories will be especially crucial to their effectiveness. Guided by these principles and employing the tools of contemporary narrative theory, the contributors analyze a wide range of Holocaust narratives -- fictional and nonfictional, literary and filmic -- for the dual purpose of offering fresh insights and identifying issues and strategies likely to be significant in the future"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism
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Holocaust -- Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Holocaust -- Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
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Historiography
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures
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Literatur
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Judenvernichtung
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Poetik
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Ethik
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essays.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Essays
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Essays.
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Essais.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lothe, Jakob, editor.
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Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939- editor.
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Phelan, James, 1951- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780814270424 |
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0814270425 |
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