R. Crownshaw

The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

This bold intervention into the debate over the memory and 'post-memory' of the Holocaust both scrutinizes recent academic theories of post-Holocaust trauma and provides a new reading of literary and architectural memory texts related to the Holocaust.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-58187-6
• 2010 edition
• Seitenzahl: 297
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9780230581876
• ISBN-10: 0230581870
• Artikelnr.: 26927569

Autorenporträt

RICHARD CROWNSHAW is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His teaching and research interests comprise nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century American literature, Holocaust studies, and cultural memory studies. He has published numerous essays on Holocaust-related literature and is co-editor of The Future of Memory.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Preface Theory After Memory On Reading Sebald: The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz Holocaust Memory and the Air War: W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur ('Air War and Literature: Zürich Lectures') Grey Zones of Memory? Reading the Perpetrator: Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser (The Reader) and Die Heimkehr (Homecoming) Countermonumental Memory Photography and Memory in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Conclusion Bibliography