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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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Evanston, Illinois
Northwestern University Press
2017
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| Series: | Cultural Expressions of World War II
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| Online Access: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | oapen_628783 9780810134119 |
| Access: | Open Access |