Third-Generation Holocaust Representation

Titel: Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory / Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger
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Veröffentlicht: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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Cultural expressions of World War II : interwar preludes, responses, memory
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ISBN: 9780810134119 ; 081013411X ; 9780810134096 ; 9780810134102 ; 0810134101

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.