| Descript |
1 online resource (xi, 323 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-313) and index. |
| Contents |
After Adorno : culture in the wake of catastrophe -- Before Auschwitz : Maurice Blanchot, from now on -- "The barbed wire of the postwar world" : Ruth Kl uger's traumatic realism -- Unbearable witness : Charlotte Delbo's traumatic timescapes -- Reading Jewish : Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, and Holocaust postmemory -- "Touch an event to begin" : Americanizing the Holocaust --Conclusion : after the "final solution" : from the "Jewish question" to Jewish questioning. |
| Summary |
Drawing on a wide range of texts, Michael Rothberg puts forth an overarching framework for understanding representations of the Holocaust. Through close readings of such writers and thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Ruth Kl uger, Charlotte Delbo, Art Spiegelman, and Philip Roth and an examination of films by Steven Spielberg and Claude Lanzmann, Rothberg demonstrates how the Holocaust as a traumatic event makes three fundamental demands on representation: a demand for documentation, a demand for reflection on the limits of representation, and a demand for engagement with the public. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| ISBN |
9780816634590 |
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0816634580 (hardback) |
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9780816634583 (hardback) |
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0816634599 (paperback) |
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9780816690831 (electronic bk.) |
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0816690839 (electronic bk.) |
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