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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory /

Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish--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 narra...

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Auteurs principaux: Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chicago : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish--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 these writers, this bold new work examines those structures, ironies, disjunctions, and tensions that produce a literature lamenting 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 transmission of trauma; inherited memory; the psychological tensions of post-Holocaust Jewish identity; tropes of memory and the personalized narrative voice; generational dislocation and anxiety; the recurrent antagonisms of assimilation and alienation; the imaginative reconstruction of the past; and the future of Holocaust memory and representation.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (273 pages).
ISBN:9780810134119
Accès:Open Access