Description |
261 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Introduction: The Americanization of the Holocaust -- 1. The Imaginary Jew and the American Poet / Hilene Flanzbaum -- 2. Aliens in the Wasteland: American Encounters with the Holocaust on 1960s Science Fiction Television / Jeffrey Shandler -- 3. Imagining Survivors: Testimony and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness / Henry Greenspan -- 4. America's Holocaust: Memory and the Politics of Identity / James E. Young -- 5. Inheriting the Holocaust: Jewish American Fiction and the Double Bind of the Second-Generation Survivor / Andrew Furman -- 6. Surviving Rego Park: Holocaust Theory from Art Spiegelman to Berel Lang / Amy Hungerford -- 7. "Three Thousand Miles Away": The Holocaust in Recent Works for the American Theater / Joyce Antler -- 8. The Cinematic Triangulation of Jewish American Identity: Israel, America, and the Holocaust / Sara R. Horowitz -- 9. Reflections on the Holocaust from Nebraska / Alan E. Steinweis |
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10. "You Who Never Was There": Slavery and the New Historicism - Deconstruction and the Holocaust / Walter Benn Michaels -- 11. Suffering as a Moral Beacon: Blacks and Jews / Laurence Mordekhai Thomas -- 12. Play Will Make You Free: Reprising The Triumph of the Will in Chicago's Nike Town / Andrew Levy |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Foreign public opinion, American
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
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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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Public opinion -- United States.
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Author |
Flanzbaum, Hilene.
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LC no. |
98036309 |
ISBN |
0801860210 (alk. paper) |
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0801860229 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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