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Brings Holocaust literary and cultural research right up-to-date, with study ranging into the 21st century
Maps the critical terrain of the field of contemporary Holocaust literary and cultural studies
Features contributions from a wide range of eminent Holocaust studies scholars, as well as rising stars
Examines a variety of forms, media and genre, such as graphic novels, film and poetry
Comprises a study of Holocaust literary narratives from multi-generational and multicultural perspectives and from a focus on diverse genres including fiction, memoirs, graphic novels, poetry, cinema
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Table of contents (42 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fiction
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Front Matter
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About this book
The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation. The chapters consider diverse generational perspectives—survivor writing, second and third generation—and genres—memoirs, poetry, novels, graphic narratives, films, video-testimonies, and other forms of literary and cultural expression. In turn, these perspectives create interactions among generations, genres, temporalities, and cultural contexts. The volume also participates in the ongoing project of responding to and talking through moments of rupture and incompletion that represent an opportunity to contribute to the making of meaning through the continuation of narratives of the past. As such, the chapters in this volume pose options for reading Holocaust texts, offering openings for further discussion and exploration. The inquiring body of interpretive scholarship responding to the Shoah becomes itself a story, a narrative that materially extends our inquiry into that history.
Reviews
“Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner expertly demonstrate in their comprehensive and thought-provoking Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture, this is even truer when the event is the Holocaust, the texts are literary and cultural, and those reassembling them today are already the third generation born since the event. … Along with the accolades for this remarkable handbook, one can only hope that such a volume will be written in the not-too-distant future.” (Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, April 29, 2022)
“The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture will no doubt become an invaluable contribution to future Holocaust research. … This collection is a fine example of interdisciplinarity that will support learning and reference for researchers of all interests and abilities. The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture will prove itself to be a vital asset to any learner, expressing the sheer potentiality of the field to resonate with an abundance of cultural discussions.” (Kieran J. H. Shackleton, Textual Practice, January 13, 2021)
“This excellent collection of essays, edited by two internationally celebrated scholars, will be crucial reading for anyone interested in the twenty-first-century legacies of Holocaust representation, as they appear in genres ranging from testimony, video-testimony and poetry to graphic novels, comics and photography. It revisits classic works and debates as well as introducing important new perspectives such as those of trauma studies, gender and sexuality, animal studies and the third generation. This Handbook sets the conceptual scene for literary and cultural Holocaust studies in the current era.”—Sue Vice, Professor of English, The University of Sheffield, UK
"Comprehensive, profound, intellectually daring, Aarons, Lassner and the scholars they have assembled in this remarkable collection have begun a conversation about the representation of the Holocaust in the twenty-first century that will define the terms of that conversation.”
—Joseph Skibell, author of A Blessing on the Moon (1997) and A Curable Romantic (2010)
Editors and Affiliations
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Trinity University, San Antonio, USA
Victoria Aarons
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Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Phyllis Lassner
About the editors
Victoria Aarons is O.R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University, USA. She is the author or editor of 11 books, including The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (2015); The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow (2016); Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction (2016); Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory (co-authored with Alan Berger) (2017), The New Jewish American Literary Studies (2019), and Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory (2019).
Phyllis Lassner is Professor Emerita in The Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies and The Gender Studies Program at Northwestern University, USA. Her publications include British Women Writers of World War II (1998), Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire, and Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust (1998). She co-edited the volumes Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Representing Jews, Jewishness, and Modern Culture (2008) and Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller (2010). Her most recent book is Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture
Editors: Victoria Aarons, Phyllis Lassner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33428-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33427-7Published: 25 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33430-7Published: 25 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33428-4Published: 24 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 840
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Global/International Culture, Film History