LEADER 03817nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910964517603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613242303 010 $a9781283242301 010 $a1283242303 010 $a9780226527239 010 $a0226527239 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226527239 035 $a(CKB)2550000000041039 035 $a(OCoLC)747412404 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10484276 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535325 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12186253 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535325 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10523316 035 $a(PQKB)10590552 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155569 035 $a(DE-B1597)523325 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226527239 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3038270 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10484276 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL324230 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3038270 035 $a(Perlego)1851483 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000041039 100 $a20101215d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe conflagration of community $efiction before and after Auschwitz /$fJ. Hillis Miller 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780226527222 311 08$a0226527220 311 08$a9780226527215 311 08$a0226527212 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Nancy contra Stevens --$t2. Foreshadowing's of Auschwitz in Kafka's Writings --$t3. The Breakdown of Community and the Disabling of Speech Acts in Kafka's The Trial --$t4. The Castle: No Mitsein, No Verifiable Interpretation --$tPrologue: Community in Fiction after Auschwitz --$t5. Three Novels about the Shoah --$t6. Imre Kertész's Fatelessness: Fiction as Testimony --$t7. Morrison's Beloved --$tCoda --$tNotes --$tIndex of Names, Titles of Works, and Characters 330 $a"After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric." The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno's famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experiences. J. Hillis Miller masterfully considers how novels about the Holocaust relate to fictions written before and after it, and uses theories of community from Jean-Luc Nancy and Derrida to explore the dissolution of community bonds in its wake. Miller juxtaposes readings of books about the Holocaust-Keneally's Schindler's List, McEwan's Black Dogs, Spiegelman's Maus, and Kertész's Fatelessness-with Kafka's novels and Morrison's Beloved, asking what it means to think of texts as acts of testimony. Throughout, Miller questions the resonance between the difficulty of imagining, understanding, or remembering Auschwitz-a difficulty so often a theme in records of the Holocaust-and the exasperating resistance to clear, conclusive interpretation of these novels. The Conflagration of Community is an eloquent study of literature's value to fathoming the unfathomable. 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.3/9358405318 700 $aMiller$b J. Hillis$g(Joseph Hillis),$f1928-$0251308 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964517603321 996 $aThe conflagration of community$94358746 997 $aUNINA