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After
Representation?
Price: $49.95
Subtitle: The Holocaust,
Literature, and Culture
Edited by R. Clifton
Spargo and Robert M. Ehrenreich
Introduction by R. Clifton Spargo
Subject: Jewish
Studies, Literary
Studies
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4589-9
Pages: 288 pages
Publication Date: December 2009
Published in association with the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Praise for After Representation?
"Bringing together some
of the best known thinkers in the field of Holocaust
literary studies, this volume will quickly become required reading for
advanced
undergraduates, graduate students and scholars of the Shoah."—Irene Kacandes, co-editor of Teaching the Representation of the
Holocaust
Description:
After
Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust
studies—the intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression,
particularly within literature.
As experts in the study of literature and culture, the scholars in this
collection examine the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust
representation and reveal how writers—whether they write as witnesses
to the Holocaust or at an imaginative distance from the Nazi
genocide—articulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction,
between event and expression, and between the condition of life endured
in atrocity and the hope of a meaningful existence. What imaginative
literature brings to the study of the Holocaust is an ability to test
the limits of language and its conventions. After Representation? moves beyond
the suspicion of representation and explores the changing meaning of
the Holocaust for different generations, audiences, and contexts.
About the Author:
R. Clifton Spargo is an associate professor of
English at Marquette University. He is the author of Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the
Holocaust, and the Unjust Death and The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and
Responsibility in Elegiac Literature.
Robert M. Ehrenreich is the director of the university programs
division of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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