The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Authors: Crownshaw, R.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Theory after Memory
Pages 1-40
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On Reading Sebald: The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz
Pages 41-81
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Holocaust Memory and the Air War: W. G. Sebald’s Luftkrieg und Literatur (‘Air War and Literature: Zürich Lectures’)
Pages 82-116
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Grey Zones of Memory?
Pages 117-144
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Reading the Perpetrator: Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser (The Reader) and Die Heimkehr (Homecoming)
Pages 145-181
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture
- Authors
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- R. Crownshaw
- Series Title
- Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-29458-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230294585
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-58187-6
- Series ISSN
- 2634-6257
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 297
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