| Description |
x, 369 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-364) and index. |
| Contents |
I: Reading and the holocaust -- 'Not read and consumed in the same way as other books': identification and the genre of testimony -- Traces of experience: the texts of testimony -- 'Faithful and doubtful, near and far': memory, postmemory, and identity -- Holocaust reading: memory and identification in Holocaust fiction, 1990-2003 -- II: Holocaust metahistories -- Against historicism: history, memory, and truth -- 'Are footnotes less barbaric?': history, memory, and the truth of the Holocaust in the work of Saul Friedländer -- 'What constitutes a historical explanation": metahistory and the limits of historical explanation in the Goldhagen/Browning controversy -- The metahistory of denial: the Irving/Lipstady libel case and Holocaust denial -- Inexhaustible meaning, inextinguishable voices: Levinas and the Holocaust -- Cinders of philosophy, philosophy of cinders: Derrida and the trace of the Holocaust -- The limits of understanding: perpetrator philosophy and philosophical histories -- The postmodern, the Holocaust, and the limits of the human. |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. |
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| ISBN |
0199265933 cased |
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