Roca-Lizarazu Renegotiating Postmemory

The Holocaust in Contemporary German-Language Jewish Literature
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78744-673-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 7, 236 Seiten

Reihe: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought

With the disappearance of the eyewitness generation and the globalization of Holocaust memory, this book interrogates key concepts in Holocaust and trauma studies through an assessment of contemporary German-language Jewish authors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roca-Lizarazu, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Holocaust Memory in the New Millennium-Between Continuity and Change
Rethinking Testimony: Authenticity, Travelling Memories, and Post-Holocaust Jewish Identities in Benjamin Stein's Die Leinwand
"Im Land der Väter und Verräter": Intertextuality, Influence, and the Problem of Symbiosis in Maxim Biller's Writing
Contrapuntal Memory, Dialogism, and Irony: Challenges to Transnationalism in Vladimir Vertlib's Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur
From the Family to the Meta-Memorial Novel: Eva Menasse's Fiction
Conclusion: The Critique of the Critique of Representation: Self- and Metareflexivity in Contemporary Holocaust Fiction

Über Autor(innen)

Roca-Lizarazu Maria:
MARIA ROCA LIZARAZU is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK.