This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust
narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and
memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of the
Holocaust has been passed along inter-generationally from survivors to
the second-generation—the children of survivors—to a contemporary
generation of grandchildren of survivors—those writers who have come
of literary age at a time that will mark the end of direct survivor
testimony. This collection, in drawing upon a variety of approaches
and perspectives, suggests the rich and fluid range of expression
through which stories of the Holocaust are transmitted to and by the
third generation, who have taken on the task of bearing witness to the
enormity of the Holocaust and the ways in which this pronounced event
has shaped the lives of the descendants of those who experienced the
trauma first-hand. The essays collected—essays written by renowned
scholars in Holocaust literature, philosophy, history, and religion as
well as by third-generation writers—show that Holocaust literary
representation has continued to flourish well into the twenty-first
century, gaining increased momentum as a third generation of writers
has added to the growing corpus of Holocaust literature. Here we find
a literature that laments unrecoverable loss for a generation removed
spatially and temporally from the extended trauma of the Holocaust.
The third-generation writers, in writing against a contemporary
landscape of post-apocalyptic apprehension and anxiety, capture and
penetrate the growing sense of loss and the fear of the failure of
memory. Their novels, short stories, and memoirs carry the Holocaust
into the twenty-first century and suggest the future of Holocaust
writing for extended generations.
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Memory in Memoir and Fiction
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781498517171
Publisert
2017
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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