The Holocaust across Borders

Trauma, Atrocity, and Representation in Literature and Culture

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781793612052 (ISBN)

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In this book, scholars with expertise in various national literatures and cultures explore how the Holocaust has been represented in novels, memoirs, film, television, and architecture. This book provides a unique vantage point for the scholar and student to compare how national context impacts representations of the Holocaust.

“Literature of the Holocaust” courses, whether taught in high schools or at universities, necessarily cover texts from a broad range of international contexts. Instructors are required, regardless of their own disciplinary training, to become comparatists and discuss all works with equal expertise. This books offers analyses of the ways in which representations of the Holocaust—whether in text, film, or material culture—are shaped by national context, providing a valuable pedagogical source in terms of both content and methodology. As memory yields to post-memory, nation of origin plays a larger role in each re-telling, and the chapters in this book explore this notion covering well-known texts like Night (Hungary), Survival in Auschwitz (Italy), MAUS (United States), This Way to the Gas (Poland), and The Reader (Germany), while also introducing lesser-known representations from countries like Argentina or Australia.

Hilene S. Flanzbaum is the Allegra Stewart Chair of Modern Literature at Butler University.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Selling the Holocaust in 21st Century France
Hilene Flanzbaum, Butler University
Chapter 2: Life is Beautiful, or Not: The Myth of the Good Italian
Shira Klein, Chapman University
Chapter 3: Not my Holocaust: MAUS and Memory in the Polish Classroom
Holli Levitsky, Loyola Marymount University
Chapter 4: Germans, Migration and Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature
Agnes Mueller, University of South Carolina
Chapter 5: The Burden of the Third Generation in Germany: Nora Krug’s Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Victoria Aarons, Trinity University
Chapter 6: An Impossible Homecoming: Ruth Kluger’s Austria
Sarah Painitz, Butler University
Chapter 7: Fractures and Refraction in Argentina: Prosthetic Memory and Edgardo Cozarinsky’s Lejos de donde
Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota
Chapter 8: Anglicization and the Holocaust in Judith Kerr and Eva Tucker’s Fiction
Joshua Lander, University of Glasgow
Chapter 9: Collective Disengagement: Canada’s Nationa

Erscheinungsdatum	16.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
Co-Autor	Hilene S. Flanzbaum, Shira Klein, Holli Levitsky, Agnes Mueller
Zusatzinfo	21 b/w photos;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 228 mm
Gewicht	653 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781793612052 / 9781793612052
Zustand	Neuware