Trauma & Memory

ISBN-13: 9780367703172 / Miękka / 2023 / 224 str.

Opis

The essays in this trans-disciplinary collection debate how contemporary culture engages with the legacy of the Holocaust now that, 75 years on from the end of the War, the number of actual survivors is dwindling.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction

Introduction: the Holocaust in Contemporary Culture

Christine Berberich

1. ‘To tell the story’: cultural trauma and holocaust metanarrative

Anna Clare Hunter

Part II: New Trends in Holocaust Fiction

2. No laughing matter: humor and the Holocaust in Woody Allen, Shalom Auslander, and Howard Jacobson

Christopher Madden

3. From silence to testimony: performing trauma and postmemory in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated

Audrey Bardizbanian

4. Whose trauma is it? A trauma-theoretical reading of The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Zuzana Burákóva

5. ‘I think I’m beginning to understand. What I’m writing is an infranovel’: Laurent Binet, HHhH and the problem of ‘writing

history’

Christine Berberich

6. ‘Beyond words’: representing the ‘Holocaust by bullets’

Sue Vice

7. Still struggling with German history: W.G. Sebald, Gunter Demnig and activist memory workers in Berlin today

Kirsten Grimstad

Part III: The Holocaust in Contemporary Culture

8. Remembering the ‘unwanted’ victims: initiatives to memorialize the National Socialist euthanasia program in Germany

Caroline Pearce

9. Figuring the Grey Zone: the Auschwitz Sonderkommando in contemporary culture

Dominic Williams

10. Instagram and Auschwitz: a critical assessment of the impact social media has on Holocaust representation

Gemma Commane and Rebekah Potton

11. Encountering Auschwitz: touring the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Claire Griffiths

Afterword: Conclusion

Christine Berberich

O autorze

Christine Berberich is Reader in Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has published widely in the field of national identity construction, especially Englishness, and in twentieth-century and contemporary literature. She is the author of The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature: Englishness & Nostalgia (2007), co-editor of These Englands: Conversations on National Identity (2011), Land & Identity: Theory, Memory, Practice (2012) and Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art & Everyday Life (2015), and editor of The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction (2014). She is currently editing a collection on Brexit and the migrant experience, entitled Brexit and the Migrant Voice, as well as writing a monograph tentatively entitled Nazi Noir and a public interest book on P.G. Wodehouse and the Nazi Internment Camp at Tost.