In this Book
- Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: Cultural Expressions of World War II
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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 chorus of 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 tensions that 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 ongoing transmission 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 dislocation and 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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Additional Information
ISBN
9780810134119
Related ISBN(s)
9780810134096, 9780810134102
MARC Record
OCLC
964404280
Pages
273
Launched on MUSE
2016-12-03
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
2017