Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory (Cultural Expressions)

Aarons, Victoria; Berger, Alan L.

ISBN 10: 0810134098 / ISBN 13: 9780810134096

Published by Northwestern University Press, 2017

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In English.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory (Cultural Expressions)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810134098
• ISBN 13: 9780810134096
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Weight: 500 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

VICTORIA AARONS is O. R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature and chair of the English Department at Trinity University.

 

ALAN L. BERGER holds the Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies and is a professor of Judaic studies at Florida Atlantic University.