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The Afterdeath of the Holocaust

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Authors:
  1. Lawrence L. Langer

    1. Wellesley Hills, USA

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  • Explores what it means to ‘do the right thing’ by the terrible event that was the Holocaust
  • Advocates committing to a close encounter with the true nature of violence and cruelty experienced by those persecuted
  • Reflects on the harsh realities of a time when death became more of a given than life

Part of the book series: The Holocaust and its Contexts (HOLC)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. The Afterdeath of the Holocaust

    • Lawrence L. Langer
    Pages 1-14

  3. My Life with Holocaust Death

    • Lawrence L. Langer
    Pages 15-36

  4. Redemptive and Unredemptive Holocaust Memory

    • Lawrence L. Langer
    Pages 37-61

  5. Representing and Misrepresenting the Holocaust

    • Lawrence L. Langer
    Pages 63-86

  6. Charlotte Delbo’s Auschwitz and After

    • Lawrence L. Langer
    Pages 87-103

  7. Holocaust Fact and Holocaust Fiction: The Dual Vision of H.G. Adler

    • Lawrence L. Langer
    Pages 105-125

  8. Beyond Testimony: The Literary Design of Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man

    • Lawrence L. Langer
    Pages 127-143

  9. The Legacy of Holocaust Deathscapes

    • Lawrence L. Langer
    Pages 145-167

  10. Memory and Invention in Olga Lengyel’s Five Chimneys

    • Lawrence L. Langer
    Pages 169-195

  11. Ner Ot: The Memorial Candle as Symbol in the Art of Samuel Bak

    • Lawrence L. Langer
    Pages 197-237

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 239-247
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About this book

This book consists of ten essays that examine the ways in which language has been used to evoke what Lawrence L. Langer calls the ‘deathscape’ and the ‘hopescape’ of the Holocaust. The chapters in this collection probe the diverse impacts that site visits, memoirs, survivor testimonies, psychological studies, literature and art have on our response to the atrocities committed by the Germans during World War II. Langer also considers the misunderstandings caused by erroneous, embellished and sentimental accounts of the catastrophe, and explores some reasons why they continue to enter public and printed discourse with such ease.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Wellesley Hills, USA

    Lawrence L. Langer

About the author

Lawrence L. Langer is Emeritus Professor of English at Simmons University in Boston, USA and a renowned scholar of Holocaust literature.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Afterdeath of the Holocaust

  • Authors: Lawrence L. Langer

  • Series Title: The Holocaust and its Contexts

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66139-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66138-0Published: 12 February 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66141-0Published: 12 February 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66139-7Published: 11 February 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2731-5711

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-572X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 247

  • Number of Illustrations: 29 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Historiography and Method, History, general, Memory Studies

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