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The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation. The chapters consider diverse generational perspectives—survivor writing, second and third generation—and genres—memoirs, poetry, novels, graphic narratives, films, video-testimonies, and other forms of literary and cultural expression. In turn, these perspectives create interactions among generations, genres, temporalities, and cultural contexts. The volume also participates in the ongoing project of responding to and talking through moments of rupture and incompletion that represent an opportunity to contribute to the making of meaning through the continuation of narratives of the past. As such, the chapters in this volume pose options for reading Holocaust texts, offering openings for further discussion and exploration. The inquiring body of interpretive scholarship responding to the Shoah becomes itself a story, a narrative that materially extends our inquiry into that history.
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The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture Edited by Victoria Aarons · Phyllis Lassner
The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture “This excellent collection of essays, edited by two internationally celebrated scholars, will be crucial reading for anyone interested in the twenty-first-century legacies of Holocaust representation, as they appear in genres ranging from testimony, videotestimony and poetry to graphic novels, comics and photography. It revisits classic works and debates as well as introducing important new perspectives such as those of trauma studies, gender and sexuality, animal studies and the third generation. This Handbook sets the conceptual scene for literary and cultural Holocaust studies in the current era.” —Sue Vice, Professor of English, The University of Sheffield, UK “Comprehensive, profound, intellectually daring, Aarons, Lassner and the scholars they have assembled in this remarkable collection have begun a conversation about the representation of the Holocaust in the twenty-first century that will define the terms of that conversation.” —Joseph Skibell, author of A Blessing on the Moon (1997) and A Curable Romantic (2010)
Victoria Aarons · Phyllis Lassner Editors
The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture
Editors Victoria Aarons Trinity University San Antonio, TX, USA
Phyllis Lassner Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA
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