Crownshaw The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-230-29458-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 297 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

This bold intervention into the debate over the memory and 'post-memory' of the Holocaust both scrutinizes recent academic theories of post-Holocaust trauma and provides a new reading of literary and architectural memory texts related to the Holocaust.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crownshaw, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Preface Theory After Memory On Reading Sebald: The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz Holocaust Memory and the Air War: W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur ('Air War and Literature: Zürich Lectures') Grey Zones of Memory? Reading the Perpetrator: Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser (The Reader) and Die Heimkehr (Homecoming) Countermonumental Memory Photography and Memory in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Conclusion Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

RICHARD CROWNSHAW is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His teaching and research interests comprise nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century American literature, Holocaust studies, and cultural memory studies. He has published numerous essays on Holocaust-related literature and is co-editor of The Future of Memory.