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

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

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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 narra...

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Main Authors: Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Psychic trauma in literature.
Memory in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la litterature.
Petits-enfants de survivants de l'Holocauste.
Traumatisme psychique dans la litterature.
Memoire dans la litterature.
Litterature > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation
  • The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation
  • Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost
  • Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists
  • Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma
  • Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma
  • "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.

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