The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Theory after Memory

   • Richard Crownshaw

   Pages 1-40

3. On Reading Sebald: The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz

   • Richard Crownshaw

   Pages 41-81

4. Holocaust Memory and the Air War: W. G. Sebald’s Luftkrieg und Literatur (‘Air War and Literature: Zürich Lectures’)

   • Richard Crownshaw

   Pages 82-116

5. Grey Zones of Memory?

   • Richard Crownshaw

   Pages 117-144

6. Reading the Perpetrator: Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser (The Reader) and Die Heimkehr (Homecoming)

   • Richard Crownshaw

   Pages 145-181

7. Countermonumental Memory

   • Richard Crownshaw

   Pages 182-204

8. Photography and Memory in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

   • Richard Crownshaw

   Pages 205-238

9. Conclusion

   • Richard Crownshaw

   Pages 239-246

10. Back Matter

    Pages 247-297

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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.

• culture
• fiction
• Germany
• Holocaust
• Holocaust Memorial
• Literatur
• Memoria
• memory
• Museum

• Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

  Richard Crownshaw

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.

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