The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture

by R. Crownshaw

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230581876
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/29/2010
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	297
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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