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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552768703321

Titolo

After Testimony : The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future / / edited by Jakob Lothe, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and James Phelan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

0-8142-7042-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 380 p. :) : ill. ;

Collana

Theory and interpretation of narrative

Altri autori (Persone)

PhelanJames <1951->

SuleimanSusan Rubin <1939->

LotheJakob

Disciplina

809/.93358405318

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Imre Kertesz'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 Sobye'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.