Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
CONTENTS
1 Introduction: Approaching the Holocaust in the 21st Century
Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner
Part I Memoir
2 Elie Wiesel's Quarrel with God
Alan L. Berger
3 Primo Levi's Last Lesson: A Reading of The Drowned and the Saved
Anthony C. Wexler
4 What We Learn, At Last: Recounting Sexuality in Women's Deferred Autobiographies and Testimonies
Sara R. Horowitz
Part II Fiction
5 Ghetto in Flames: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Early Postwar Jewish Fiction Avinoam Patt
6 The Nazi Beast at the Warsaw Zoo: Animal Studies, the Holocaust, The Zookeeper's Wife, and See Under: Love
Naomi Sokoloff
7 When Facts Become Figures: Figurative Dynamics in Youth Holocaust Literature
Joanna Krongold
8 Jewish Boys on the Run: The Revision of Boyhood in Holocaust Fiction and Film
Phyllis Lassner
9 "I sometimes thought I was listening to myself" Identity-Deliberation after the Holocaust in Chaim Grade's "My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner"
Megan V. Reynolds
10 "The Relatedness of the Unrelatable" The Holocaust as Trope in Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood
Paule L vy
11 The Holocaust in Works by Two Yiddish Writers in Argentina: Simja Sneh and Israel Aszendorf
Alan Astro
12 Edgar Hilsenrath's Novels: Der Nazi & der Friseur and Berlin... Endstation
Till Kinzel
13 Transit and Transfer: Between Germany and Israel in the Granddaughters' Generation
Ashley Passmore
14 Holocaust Memories and Polish Catholic Identity: Cultural Transmutations of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Rachel F. Brenner
15 Post-Soviet Migrant Memory of the Holocaust
Karolina Krasuska
16 Vasily Grossman and Anatoly Rybakov: Soviet Sources of Historical Memory of the Holocaust
Alexis Pogorelskin
17 Refractions of Holocaust Memory in Stanislaw Lem's Science Fiction
Richard Middleton-Kaplan
Part III Poetry
18 Poetry of Witness and Poetry of Commentary: Responses to the Holocaust in Russian Verse
Marat Grinberg
19 "At Last to a Condition of Dignity" Anthony Hecht's Holocaust Poetry
David Caplan
20 Wound Marks in the Air and the Shadows Within: A Poetic
Synopsis
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.