Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory

Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish—gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of post-Holocaust writers. In negotiating the complex thematic imperatives and narrat...

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Main Authors:Aarons, Victoria (Author)
Outros Autores:Berger, Alan (Other)
Formato: Online-Resource
Idioma:English
Publicado em:Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 20170115
Colecção:Cultural Expressions of World War II
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Resumo:Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish—gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of post-Holocaust writers. In negotiating the complex thematic imperatives and narrative conceits of the literature of these writers, this bold new work examines those structures, ironies, disjunctions, and tensions that produce a literature lamenting loss for a generation removed spatially and temporally from the extended trauma of the Holocaust. Aarons and Berger address evolving notions of “postmemory”; the intergenerational transmission of trauma; inherited memory; the psychological tensions of post-Holocaust Jewish identity; tropes of memory and the personalized narrative voice; generational dislocation and anxiety; the recurrent antagonisms of assimilation and alienation; the imaginative reconstruction of the past; and the future of Holocaust memory and representation
Descrição Física:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9780810134119
Acesso:Open Access