Synopses & Reviews
Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust -from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy -Matthew Boswell considers how theymight play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human.
About the Author
MATTHEW BOSWELL Research Fellow in Memory Studies within the Department of English at the University of Salford, UK, and has previously published essays on the Holocaust poetry of Sylvia Plath, John Berryman and Geoffrey Hill.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I: POETRY
Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965) and Other Poems
W. D. Snodgrass, The Fuehrer Bunker (1995)
PART II: POPULAR MUSIC
American Punk: Ramones, Ramones (1976)
English Punk: Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977) and The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1979)
Post-Punk: Joy Division, Closer (1980)
Post-Punk Rock: Manic Street Preachers, The Holy Bible (1994)
PART III: FILM
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
The Grey Zone (Tim Blake Nelson, 2001)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
Index