Holocaust Fiction and the Question of Impiety - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holocaust Fiction and the Question of Impiety write by David John Dickson. This book was released on 2022-10-10. Holocaust Fiction and the Question of Impiety available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust fiction. Using Gillian Rose’s theory of Holocaust piety, it argues that, rather than enhancing our understanding of the Holocaust, contemporary fiction has instead become overly focused on gratuitous representations of bodies in pain. The book begins by discussing the locations and imagery which have come to define our understanding of the Holocaust, before then highlighting how this gradual simplification has led to an increasing sense of emotional distance from the historical past. Holocaust fiction, the book argues, attempts to close this emotional and temporal distance by creating an emotional connection to bodies in pain. Using different concepts relating to embodied experience – from Sonia Kruks’ notion of feeling-with to Alison Landsberg’s prosthetic memory – the book analyses several key examples of Holocaust literature and film to establish whether fiction still possesses the capacity to approach the Holocaust impiously.
Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature
Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature write by Joost Krijnen. This book was released on 2016-05-02. Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Holocaust is often said to be unrepresentable. Yet since the 1990s, a new generation of Jewish American writers have been returning to this history again and again, insisting on engaging with it in highly playful, comic, and “impious” ways. Focusing on the fiction of Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Nathan Englander, this book suggests that this literature cannot simply be dismissed as insensitive or improper. It argues that these Jewish American authors engage with the Holocaust in ways that renew and ensure its significance for contemporary generations. These ways, moreover, are intricately connected to efforts of finding new means of expressing Jewish American identity, and of moving beyond the increasingly apparent problems of postmodernism.
New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust
New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust write by Frédéric Bonnesoeur. This book was released on 2023-11-06. New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1997, Saul Friedländer emphasized the need for an integrated history of the Holocaust. His suggestion to connect ‘the policies of the perpetrators, the attitudes of surrounding society, and the world of the victims’ provides the inspiration for this volume. Following in these footsteps, this innovative study approaches Holocaust history through a combination of macro analysis with micro studies. Featuring a range of contemporary research from emerging scholars in the field, this peer-reviewed volume provides detailed engagement with a variety of historical sources, such as documents, artifacts, photos, or text passages. The contributors investigate particular aspects of sound, materiality, space and social perceptions to provide a deeper understanding of the Holocaust, which have often been overlooked or generalised in previous historical research. Yet, as we approach an era of no first hand witnesses, this multidisciplinary, micro-historical approach remains a fundamental aspect of Holocaust research, and can provide a theoretical framework for future studies.
Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film
Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film write by Matthew Boswell. This book was released on 2011-12-07. Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human.
My Holocaust
My Holocaust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Holocaust write by Tova Reich. This book was released on 2009-10-13. My Holocaust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maurice and Norman Messer, father-and-son business partners, know a good product when they see it. That product is the Holocaust, and Maurice, a Holocaust survivor with an inflated personal history, and Norman, enjoying vicarious victimhood as a participant in the second-generation movement, proceed to market it enthusiastically. Not even the disappearance of Nechama, Norman's daughter and Maurice's granddaughter, into the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz, where she is transformed into a nun, Sister Consolatia of the Cross, deters them from pushing their agenda. Father and son embark on a tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, which Maurice—now the driving force behind the most powerful Holocaust memorialization institution in America—organizes to soften up a potential major donor, and which Norman takes advantage of to embark on a surrealistic search for his daughter. At the death camp they run into assorted groups and individuals all clamoring for a piece of the Holocaust, including Buddhist New Agers on a retreat, Israeli schoolchildren on a required heritage pilgrimage, a Holocaust artifact hustler, filmmakers, and an astonishing collection of others. All hell breaks loose when Maurice's museum is taken over by a coalition of self-styled victims seeking Holocaust status, bringing together a vivid cast of all-too-human characters, from Holocaust professionals to Holocaust wannabees of every persuasion, in the fevered competition to win the grand prize of owning the Holocaust. An inspiringly courageous and shockingly original tour-de-force, My Holocaust dares to penetrate territory until now considered sacrosanct in its brilliantly provocative and darkly comic exploration of the uses and abuses of memory and the meaning of human suffering.
