Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory Hardback
by Victoria Aarons, Alan L. Berger
Part of the Cultural Expressions of World War II series
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Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish well into the twenty-first century-gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorusof post-Holocaust writers.
In negotiating the complex thematic imperatives and narrative conceits of the literature of third-generation writers, this bold new work examines those structures, tropes, patterns, ironies, disjunctions, and overall tensionsthat produce a literature that laments unrecoverable 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 and ongoingtransmission of trauma; issues of Jewish cultural identity; inherited memory; the psychological tensions of post-Holocaust Jewish identity; the characteristic tropes of memory and the personalized narrative voice; issues of generational dislocationand anxiety; the recurrent antagonisms of assimilation and historical alienation; the imaginative re-creation and reconstruction of the past; and the future of Holocaust memory and representation.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:15/01/2017
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- ISBN:9780810134102
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:15/01/2017
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- ISBN:9780810134102
