After testimony : the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust narrative for the future

After testimony : the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust narrative for the future /

""After Testimony is the first larger collective project that specifically and self-consciously employs narrative theory in its analysis of texts about the Holocaust, an undertaking that, in my opinion, is woefully overdue, especially given the ubiquity of narratological approaches in lite...

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Other Authors: Lothe, Jakob, Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939-, Phelan, James, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2012.
Series:Theory and interpretation of narrative series
Subjects:
1939-1945
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography.
Historiography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures.
Literatur
Judenvernichtung
Poetik
Ethik
Table of Contents:
  • Imre Kertész's fatelessness : fiction as testimony / J. Hillis Miller
  • Challenges for the successor generations of German-Jewish authors in Germany / Beatrice Sandberg
  • Recent literature confronting the past : France and beyond / Philippe Mesnard, translated by Terence Cave
  • Performing a perpetrator as witness : Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes / Susan Rubin Suleiman
  • The ethics and aesthetics of backward narration in Martin Amis's Time's arrow / James Phelan
  • The face-to-face encounter in Holocaust narrative / Jeremy Hawthorn
  • Knowing little, adding nothing : the ethics and aesthetics of remembering in Espen Søbye's Kathe, always lived in Norway / Anniken Greve
  • "When facts are scarce" : authenticating strategies in writing by children of survivors / Irene Kacandes
  • Objects of return / Marianne Hirsch
  • Narrative, memory, and visual image : W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur and Austerlitz / Jakob Lothe
  • Which narrative of Auschwitz? A narrative analysis of Laurence Rees's documentary Auschwitz : the Nazis and "the final solution" / Anette H. Storeide
  • Moving testimonies : "unhomed geography" and the Holocaust documentary of return / Janet Walker
  • From Auschwitz to the Temple Mount : binding and unbinding the Israeli narrative / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
  • The melancholy generation : Grossman's Book of interior grammar / Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan
  • Fractured relations : the multidirectional Holocaust memory of Caryl Phillips / Michael Rothberg
  • Hiroshima and the Holocaust : tales of war and defeat in Japan and Germany-a contrastive perspective / Anne Thelle.

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