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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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Author:   Victoria Aarons ,  Phyllis Lassner
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   1.288kg
ISBN:  

9783030334307

ISBN 10:   3030334309
Pages:   840
Publication Date:   25 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS     1          Introduction: Approaching the Holocaust in the 21st Century Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner   Part I       Memoir 2          Elie Wiesel’s Quarrel with God Alan L. Berger 3          Primo Levi’s Last Lesson: A Reading of The Drowned and the Saved Anthony C. Wexler   4          What We Learn, At Last: Recounting Sexuality in Women’s Deferred Autobiographies and Testimonies Sara R. Horowitz   Part II      Fiction 5          Ghetto in Flames: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Early Postwar Jewish Fiction Avinoam Patt   6          The Nazi Beast at the Warsaw Zoo: Animal Studies, the Holocaust, The Zookeeper’s Wife, and See Under: Love Naomi Sokoloff   7          When Facts Become Figures: Figurative Dynamics in Youth Holocaust Literature Joanna Krongold 8          Jewish Boys on the Run: The Revision of Boyhood in Holocaust Fiction and Film             Phyllis Lassner   9          “I sometimes thought I was listening to myself”: Identity-Deliberation after the Holocaust in Chaim Grade’s “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner” Megan V. Reynolds 10        “The Relatedness of the Unrelatable”: The Holocaust as Trope in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood Paule Lévy   11        The Holocaust in Works by Two Yiddish Writers in Argentina: Simja Sneh and Israel Aszendorf             Alan Astro 12        Edgar Hilsenrath’s Novels: Der Nazi & der Friseur and Berlin… Endstation Till Kinzel   13        Transit and Transfer: Between Germany and Israel in the Granddaughters’ Generation Ashley Passmore 14        Holocaust Memories and Polish Catholic Identity: Cultural Transmutations of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rachel F. Brenner   15        Post-Soviet Migrant Memory of the Holocaust Karolina Krasuska   16        Vasily Grossman and Anatoly Rybakov: Soviet Sources of Historical Memory of the Holocaust Alexis Pogorelskin 17        Refractions of Holocaust Memory in Stanisław Lem’s Science Fiction Richard Middleton-Kaplan   Part III     Poetry 18        Poetry of Witness and Poetry of Commentary: Responses to the Holocaust in Russian Verse Marat Grinberg  19       “At Last to a Condition of Dignity”: Anthony Hecht’s Holocaust Poetry David Caplan 20        Wound Marks in the Air and the Shadows Within: A Poetic Examination of Dan Pagis, Paul Celan, and Nelly Sachs Shellie McCullough 21        The Dark Side of Holocaust Era Poetry: Nazi Poetry Promoting Antisemitism and Genocide Cary Nelson   Part IV     Film and Drama 22        Holocaust Drama Imagined and Re-Imagined: The Case of Charlotte Delbo’s             Who Will Carry the Word? Holli Levitsky   23        Wresting Memory as We Wrestle with Holocaust Representation: Reading László Neme’s Son of Saul Gila Safran Naveh   24        Troubled Aesthetics: Jewish Bodies in Post-Holocaust Film Jessica Lang 25        Screen Memories: Trauma, Repetition, and Survival in Sidney Lumet’s The             Pawnbroker Sandor Goodhart   26        Haunted Dreams: The Legacy of the Holocaust in And Europe Will Be Stunned Melissa Weininger   Part V      Graphic Culture 27        “Master Race”: Graphic Storytelling in the Aftermath of the Holocaust Victoria Aarons 28        The Challenges of Translating Art Spiegelman’s Maus Martín Urdiales-Shaw   29        We Are a Long Way Past Maus: Responsible and Irresponsible Holocaust Representations in Graphic Comics and Sitcom Cartoons Jeffrey Scott Demsky 30        Claustrophobic in the Gaps of Others: Affective Investments from the Queer Margins Golan Moskowitz 31        Recrafting the Past: Graphic Novels, the Third Generation and Twenty-First Century Representations of the Holocaust Claire Gorrara  32       X-Men at Auschwitz? Superheroes, Nazis, and the Holocaust Edward B. Westermann 33        An Iconic Image through the Lens of Ka-tzetnik: The Murder of the Mother and the Essence of Auschwitz David Patterson 34        Photographing Survival: Survivor Photographs of, and at, Auschwitz Tim Cole   Part VI     Historical & Cultural Narratives 35        A Reconsideration of Sexual Violence in German Colonial and Nazi Ideology and its Representation in Holocaust Texts Elizabeth R. Baer   36        The Place of Holocaust Survivor Videotestimony: Navigating the Landmarks of First-Person Audio-Visual Representation Oren Baruch Stier 37        Beckett’s Holocaust Ira Nadel   38        The Auschwitz Women’s Camp: An Overview and Reconsideration Sarah Cushman   39        Aryan Feminity: Identity in the Third Reich Wendy Adele-Marie   40        Reconsidering Jewish Rage after the Holocaust Margarete Myers Feinstein   41        Impossible Holocaust Metaphors: Shoes, Matter, Memory Sharon B. Oster 42        From Holocaust Studies to Trauma Studies and Back Again Hilene Flanzbaum Contributors’ Notes Index

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The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture will no doubt become an invaluable contribution to future Holocaust research. ... This collection is a fine example of interdisciplinarity that will support learning and reference for researchers of all interests and abilities. The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture will prove itself to be a vital asset to any learner, expressing the sheer potentiality of the field to resonate with an abundance of cultural discussions. (Kieran J. H. Shackleton, Textual Practice, January 13, 2021)

Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner expertly demonstrate in their comprehensive and thought-provoking Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture, this is even truer when the event is the Holocaust, the texts are literary and cultural, and those reassembling them today are already the third generation born since the event. ... Along with the accolades for this remarkable handbook, one can only hope that such a volume will be written in the not-too-distant future. (Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, April 29, 2022) The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture will no doubt become an invaluable contribution to future Holocaust research. ... This collection is a fine example of interdisciplinarity that will support learning and reference for researchers of all interests and abilities. The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture will prove itself to be a vital asset to any learner, expressing the sheer potentiality of the field to resonate with an abundance of cultural discussions. (Kieran J. H. Shackleton, Textual Practice, January 13, 2021)

“Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner expertly demonstrate in their comprehensive and thought-provoking Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture, this is even truer when the event is the Holocaust, the texts are literary and cultural, and those reassembling them today are already the third generation born since the event. … Along with the accolades for this remarkable handbook, one can only hope that such a volume will be written in the not-too-distant future.” (Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, April 29, 2022) “The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture will no doubt become an invaluable contribution to future Holocaust research. … This collection is a fine example of interdisciplinarity that will support learning and reference for researchers of all interests and abilities. The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture will prove itself to be a vital asset to any learner, expressing the sheer potentiality of the field to resonate with an abundance of cultural discussions.” (Kieran J. H. Shackleton, Textual Practice, January 13, 2021)

Author Information

Victoria Aarons is O.R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University, USA. She is the author or editor of 11 books, including The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (2015); The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow (2016); Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction (2016); Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory (co-authored with Alan Berger) (2017), The New Jewish American Literary Studies (2019), and Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory (2019). Phyllis Lassner is Professor Emerita in The Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies and The Gender Studies Program at Northwestern University, USA.  Her publications include British Women Writers of World War II (1998), Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire, and Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust (1998). She co-edited the volumes Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Representing Jews, Jewishness, and Modern Culture (2008) and Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller (2010). Her most recent book is Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film (2017).  

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