Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory
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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory
About This Book
Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish—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 these writers, this bold new work examines those structures, ironies, disjunctions, and tensions that produce a literature lamenting loss for a generation removed spatially and temporally from the extended trauma of the Holocaust. Aarons and Berger address evolving notions of "postmemoryâ€?; the intergenerational transmission of trauma; inherited memory; the psychological tensions of post-Holocaust Jewish identity; tropes of memory and the personalized narrative voice; generational dislocation and anxiety; the recurrent antagonisms of assimilation and alienation; the imaginative reconstruction of the past; and the future of Holocaust memory and representation.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. On the Periphery: The “Tangled Roots” of Holocaust Remembrance for the Third Generation
- Chapter 2. The Intergenerational Transmission of Memory and Trauma: From Survivor Writing to Post-Holocaust Representation
- Chapter 3. Third-Generation Memoirs: Metonymy and Representation in Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost
- Chapter 4. Trauma and Tradition: Changing Classical Paradigms in Third-Generation Novelists
- Chapter 5. Nicole Krauss: Inheriting the Burden of Holocaust Trauma
- Chapter 6. Refugee Writers and Holocaust Trauma
- Chapter 7. “There Were Times When It Was Possible to Weigh Suffering”: Julie Orringer’s The Invisible Bridge and the Extended Trauma of the Holocaust
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index