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UNINA9910820858803321 |
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Autore |
Rothberg Michael |
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Titolo |
Traumatic realism : the demands of Holocaust representation / / Michael Rothberg |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2000 |
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Edizione |
[New ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-313) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Demands of Holocaust Representation; Part I: MODERNISM ""AFTER AUSCHWITZ""; 1. After Adorno: Culture in the Wake of Catastrophe; 2. Before Auschwitz: Maurice Blanchot, From Now On; Part II: REALISM IN ""THE CONCENTRATIONARY UNIVERSE""; 3. ""The Barbed Wire of the Postwar World"": Ruth Klüger's Traumatic Realism; 4. Unbearable Witness: Charlotte Delbo's Traumatic Timescapes; Part III: POSTMODERNISM, OR ""THE YEAR OF THE HOLOCAUST""; 5. Reading Jewish: Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, and Holocaust Postmemory |
6. ""Touch an Event to Begin"": Americanizing the HolocaustConclusion. After the ""Final Solution"": From the ""Jewish Question"" to Jewish Questioning; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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How to approach the Holocaust and its relationship to late twentieth-century society? While some stress the impossibility of comprehending this event, others attempt representations in forms as different as the nonfiction novel (and Hollywood blockbuster) Schindler's List, the documentary Shoah, and the comic book Maus. This problem is at the center of Michael Rothberg's book, a focused account of the psychic, intellectual, and cultural aftermath of the Holocaust. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Michael Rothberg puts forth an overarching framework |
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