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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory
Aarons, Victoria; Berger, Alan L.
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Description for Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory
paperback. Series: Cultural Expressions of World War II. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 381.
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 chorusof 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 tensionsthat 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 ... Read more
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 chorusof 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 tensionsthat 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Expressions of World War II
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810134096
SKU
V9780810134096
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About Aarons, Victoria; Berger, Alan L.
Victoria Aarons is O. R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature and chair of the English Department at Trinity University, USA. ALAN L. BERGER holds the Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies and is a professor of Judaic studies at Florida Atlantic University, USA.
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