| Description |
viii, 512 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Options for teaching, 1079-2562 ; 18 |
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Options for teaching ; 18
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| Contents |
Introduction / Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes -- pt. 1. Critical paradigms. The barbarity of footnotes : history and the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen -- Questions of authenticity / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- Teaching about perpetrators / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Reflections on the long history of European antisemitism / Susannah Heschel and Sander Gilman -- Gender and Holocaust representation / Sara R. Horowitz -- Teaching trauma and transmission / Bella Brodzki -- The Holocaust and comparative genocide in the twentieth century / Eric D. Weitz -- Y--you know English?" : multilingual English and the Holocaust / Alan Rosen -- |
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pt. 2. Genres. Poetry and Holocaust remembrance / Susan Gubar -- Teaching fiction, teaching the Holocaust / Amy Hungerford -- Broken records : Holocaust diaries, memoirs, and memorial books -- Audio and video testimony and Holocaust studies / Geoffrey Hartman -- Teaching cinema, teaching the Holocaust / Orly Lubin -- Teaching the drama of the Holocaust / Christian Rogowski -- The problem of childhood, children's literature, and Holocaust representation / Adrienne Kertzer -- Postmemory, backshadowing, separation : teaching second-generation Holocaust fiction / Efraim Sicher -- Teaching German memory and countermemory : the end of the Holocaust monument in Germany / James E. Young -- Teaching visual culture and the Holocaust / David Bathrick -- |
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pt. 3. Selected texts. Responding to the burden of witness in Dan Pagis's "Written in pencil in the sealed railway-car" / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Paul Celan's stars : teaching "Todesfuge" as a canonical Holocaust poem / Ulrich Baer -- Questioning key texts : a pedagogical approach to teaching Elie Wiesel's Night / Gary Weissman -- A rational humanist confronts the Holocaust : teaching Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz / Jonathan Druker -- Reconsidering Anne Frank : teaching the diary in its historical and cultural context / Pascale Bos -- Surviving Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and after : how to arrive and depart / Judith Greenberg -- The 1.5 generation : George Perec's W or the memory of childhood / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Ruth Klüger's Still alive : a Holocaust girlhood remembered : an unsentimental education / Nancy K. Miller -- "Toward an addressable you" : Ozick's The shawl and the mouth of the witness / Michael G. Levine -- "You wanted history, I give you history" : Claude Lanzmann's Shoah / Leo Spitzer -- Not quite Holocaust fiction : A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani and W. G. Sebald's The emigrants / Adam Zachary Newton -- |
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pt. 4. Classroom contexts. Winning support for a multidisciplinary Holocaust course at a small liberal arts college / Marcia D. Horn -- Teaching the Holocaust in a genocide studies framework at a historically Black university / Renée A. Hill -- Building a Holocaust studies program for both town and gown / David Scrase -- Teaching the Holocaust in a Jewish American literature course / Joshua L. Charlson -- Pedagogy and the politics of memory : "the countermonument project" / Michael Rothberg -- Writing the Holocaust : the transformative power of response journals / Sondra Perl -- Afterword / Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature -- Study and teaching.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Study and teaching.
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| Author |
Hirsch, Marianne.
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Kacandes, Irene, 1958-
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| LC no. |
2004019450 |
| ISBN |
0873523482 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0873523490 paperback alkaline paper |
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