{"product_id":"after-representation-the-holocaust-literature-and-culture-hardback-9780813545899","title":"After Representation?; The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture (Hardback) 9780813545899","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAfter Representation?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Holocaust, Literature, and Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eR. Clifton Spargo (Edited by), Robert Ehrenreich (Edited by), R. Clifton Spargo (Introduction by), Michael Rothberg (Contributions by), Erin McGlothlin (Contributions by), Geoffrey Hartman (Contributions by), Sara Horowitz (Contributions by), Petra Schweitzer (Contributions by), Berel Lang (Contributions by), James Young (Contributions by), Michael Bernard-Donals (Contributions by), Sidney Bolkosky (Contributions by), Robert Eaglestone (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813545899\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 November 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.539 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"A provocative and engaging volume.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e (Holocaust and Genocide Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Bringing together some of the best known thinkers in the field of Holocaust literary studies, this volume will quickly become required reading for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and scholars of the Shoah.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Irene Kacandes (co-editor of Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAfter Representation?\u003c\/i\u003e explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studiesùthe intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature.\u003cp\u003eAs experts in the study of literature and culture, the scholars in this collection examine the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and reveal how writersùwhether they write as witnesses to the Holocaust or at an imaginative distance from the Nazi genocideùarticulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction, between event and expression, and between the condition of life endured in atrocity and the hope of a meaningful existence. What imaginative literature brings to the study of the Holocaust is an ability to test the limits of language and its conventions. \u003ci\u003eAfter Representation?\u003c\/i\u003e moves beyond the suspicion of representation and explores the changing meaning of the Holocaust for different generations, audiences, and contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One. Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Holocaust, History Writing, and the Role of Fiction\u003cbr\u003e Nostalgia and the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e Death in Language\u003cbr\u003e Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism (including Sex, Shit, and Status)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two. A Question for Aesthetics?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nazi Aesthetics in Historical Context\u003cbr\u003e Writing Ruins\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eIf I forget thee, O Jerusalem\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three. Does Culture Influence Memory?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Holocaust and the Economy of Memory, from Bellow to Morrison (The Technique of Figurative Allegory)\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eAnd in the Distance You Hear Music, a Band Playing\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reading Heart of Darkness after the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e Theorizing the Perpetrator in Bernhard Schlink'\u003cbr\u003es The Reader and Martin Amis'\u003cbr\u003es Time'\u003cbr\u003es Arrow \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735352668440,"sku":"9780813545899","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/after-representation-the-holocaust-literature-and-culture-hardback-9780813545899","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}