After representation? : the Holocaust, literature, and culture /

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Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.
Description:	xii, 242 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7906073

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Other authors / contributors:	Spargo, R. Clifton. Ehrenreich, Robert M. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
ISBN:	9780813545899 (alk. paper) 0813545897 (alk. paper) 9780813545905 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813545900 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: On the Cultural Continuities of Literary Representation
Part 1. Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written?
1. The Holocaust, History Writing, and the Role of Fiction
2. Nostalgia and the Holocaust
3. Death in Language: From Mado's Mourning to the Act of Writing
4. Oskar Rosenfeld And Historiographic Realism (including Sex, Shit, and Status)
Part 2. A Question for Aesthetics?
5. Nazi Aesthetics in Historical Context
6. Writing Ruins: The Anachronistic Aesthetics of André Schwarz-Bart
7. "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem": The Poetry of Forgetful Memory in Israel and Palestine
Part 3. How Does Culture Influence Memory?
8. The Holocaust and the Economy of Memory, from Bellow to Morrison (The Technique of Figurative Allegory)
9. "And in the Distance You Hear Music, a Band Playing": Reflections on Chaos and Order in Literature and Testimony
10. Reading Heart of Darkness after the Holocaust
11. Theorizing the Perpetrator in Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow
Contributors' Biographies
Index

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