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 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.
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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.