Renegotiating postmemory : the Holocaust in contemporary German-language Jewish literature /

"With the disappearance of the eyewitness generation and the globalization of Holocaust memory, this book interrogates key concepts in Holocaust and trauma studies through an assessment of contemporary German-language Jewish authors"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Roca Lizarazu, Maria, 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2020.
Series:Dialogue and disjunction.
Subjects:
2000-2099
German literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
German literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature.
Littérature allemande > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
German literature.
German literature > Jewish authors.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Holocaust memory in the new millennium-between continuity and change
  • Rethinking testimony : authenticity, "travelling memories," and post-Holocaust Jewish identities in Benjamin Stein's Die Leinwand
  • "Im Land der Väter und Verräter" : intertextuality, influence, and the problem of symbiosis in Maxim Biller's writing
  • Contrapuntal memory, dialogism, and irony : challenges to transnationalism in Vladimir Vertlib's Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur
  • From the family to the metamemorial novel : Eva Menasse's fiction
  • Conclusion: The critique of the critique of representation; self- and metareflexivity in contemporary Holocaust fiction.

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