Contents Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction Current research 1. A Genre of Rupture: The Literary Language of the Holocaust Victoria Aarons 2. Questions of Truth in Holocaust Memory and Testimony Sue Vice 3. After Epic: Adorno’s Scream and the Shadows of Lyric David Miller 4. Relationships to Realism in Post-Holocaust Fiction: Conflicted Realism and the Counterfactual Historical Novel Jenni Adams 5. Theory and the Ethics of Holocaust Representation Michael Bernard-Donals 6. ‘Don’t you know anything?’ Childhood and the Holocaust Adrienne Kertzer 7. Holocaust Postmemory: W. G. Sebald and Gerhard Richter Brett Ashley Kaplan and Fernando Herrero-Matoses 8. Narrative Perspective and the Holocaust Perpetrator: Edgar Hilsenrath’s The Nazi and the Barber and Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones Erin McGlothlin 9. The Holocaust and the Taboo Matthew Boswell 10. Holocaust Literature: Comparative Approaches Stef Craps 11. Depoliticizing and Repoliticizing Holocaust Memory Richard Crownshaw New Directions in Holocaust Literary Studies Annotated bibliography Glossary of Major Terms and Concepts Index
Leading scholars explore current and future directions in Holocaust Literature in this easy-to-use and authoritative research reference guide.
Jenni Adams is Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her previous publications include Magic Realism in Holocaust Literature: Troping the Traumatic Real (2011).
This is a superb, well-thought out and brilliantly constructed
companion to this growing field: it will both stimulate further
research and support the teaching of Holocaust Literature.
*Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and
Thought, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of
London, UK*
This timely volume is an invaluable and lucid guide to the
complexities of a vital and varied field of study. It will provide
inspiration both for those already engaged in work in this field
and those who are new to it.
*Victoria Stewart, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature,
School of English, University of Leicester, UK*
Drawing together leading figures in the field of Holocaust studies,
this impressive and carefully balanced collection offers fresh
perspectives on the literary representation of the Holocaust. The
essays map out key areas of current debate, providing a valuable
guide to the development of Holocaust studies, trauma studies, and
memory studies in the twenty-first century.
*Anne Whitehead, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary
Literature, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics,
Newcastle University, UK*
The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature assembles a
stellar group of emerging and established critics and covers an
impressively broad range of issues and texts. With an annotated
bibliography, glossary, and outline of new directions in the field
accompanying a series of accessible essays, this volume will be
welcomed by students and scholars alike.
*Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering
the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization*
If we need any proof that 'Holocaust Literature' has arrived at a
state of respected maturity as a genre sui generis, it is this
companion, which eloquently and thoroughly provides sound and
sometimes provocative reference and critical materials for scholar
and general readers alike.
*David Scrase, Professor of German, Department of German and
Russian, University of Vermont, USA*
The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature serves as a unique
analytical literary resource for students and scholars alike and
brings together the current state of academic criticism, research,
and writing in the field. Recommended for graduate and
undergraduate libraries, as well as a useful guide for
college-level curriculum development in Holocaust studies.
*AJL Reviews*
Holocaust Literature is an important, provocative collection of
essays by international senior and emerging scholars concerned with
new directions in literary response to the Holocaust ... It
interrogates accurate, embellished, and falsified testimonies;
explores memory transmission of those distanced in time and place
from the Holocaust; examines resistance to transmission
prohibitions and taboos; and fosters comparison of the Holocaust
and its representation with that of other genocides. An extensive
annotated critical bibliography and glossary of major terms and
concepts advance Holocaust literary studies. Highly
recommended.
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