Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: Living and Writing in Postcatastrophic Times -- 1. Postcatastrophic Aesthetics -- From Catastrophe to Postcatastrophe -- Entangled Catastrophes -- Postcatastrophic Configurations in the Arts -- Postcatastrophe and Transnational Memory Cultures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Grasping for the Past: Postcatastrophic Writing of Catastrophic Biographies -- Introduction -- Part One: Silence. A Biography of a Generation -- Searching -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: The Afterlife of Holocaust Objects and Spaces -- 3. Small Acts of Repair: The Unclaimed Legacy of the Romanian Holocaust -- Reparative Approaches -- The Forgotten Cemetery -- Transnistria: The Dumping Ground -- Small Acts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. The Post-Jewish Today. Tracing Material Culture in the Postcatastrophic Polish Poetry -- Introduction -- A Non-existent Object"? On Non Omnis Moriar by Zuzanna Ginczanka -- Jewish and Post-Jewish: Postcatastrophic Semantics -- Reading Pożydowskie: Postcatastrophic Constellation in Polish Poetry -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. Libeskind and History -- Salvation and Historie -- Representing Suffering -- The Politics of Absence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Globalization, Universalization, and Forensic Turn: Postcatastrophic Memorial Museums -- Universalization" and "Globalization" of the Holocaust -- Trend 1-Archetypical Holocaust Memorial Museums -- Trend 2-"Negative Memory" and the German Norm of Confronting the Past -- Trend 3-The Forensic Turn -- Both Universalization and the Forensic Turn "Travel -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7. The Smellscape of Jewish Lublin--and its Afterlife -- Case Study Lublin: "Jewish Smells" and Urban Order -- Lublin of the Future"--The Discourse of 1954.
Erased Traces, Recalled Odors-Postcatastrophic Sensescapes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Contested and Entangled Memories -- 8. Addressing the Void: The Absence of Documents and the Difficulties of Representing the Shoah in Postcatastrophic Russian Jewish Literature -- An Event that is Still Happening:" Introduction -- Nothing More to Show-Only to Tell": Writing the Shoah and the Jewish Genocide in the Soviet Union -- One of Those Books:" Postcatastrophic Writing and Co-remembering the Shoah in Russian Jewish Literature -- Displaced Memories: Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9. After the Catastrophe. Polish Reactions to the Shoah in the 1940s and after 2010. Illustrated by the Examples of Kazimierz Wyka, Marcin Zaremba, and Andrzej Leder -- The 1940s -- Kazimierz Wyka and an Early Postwar Image of the Shoah -- Internalization -- Modern Perspective: Differences -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10. Commemorating the Shoah in the GDR's (Post-)Perpetrator Society -- From Diversity to Unity? Early Remembrance Practices in the Emerging GDR -- Intervention-Arnold Zweig -- Pioneering-Helmut Eschwege -- Exemplifying-Rudolf Hirsch -- Addressing the Shoah in a (Post-)Perpetrator Society -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archives -- 11. Explaining German Expulsions through the Lens of Postcatastrophe: New Discussions Concerning the Shoah and the Expulsions -- Framework -- Narratives Concerning the Holocaust -- Narratives Concerning the Expulsions -- Narratives Concerning Ethnic Cleansing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 12. The Silence Cartel. Representations of the Genocide of Roma in Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Literature -- Introduction -- Roma in European History -- Roma in Yugoslav Literatures and Culture -- Roma in Post-Yugoslav Literatures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III: Postcatastrophic Aesthetics and Re-Readings.
13. Lost and Saved in Translation: Katja Petrowskaja's Maybe Esther. A Family Story -- Introduction -- Writing Between Languages -- The Shadows of Babi Yar -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 14. "There's No Such Thing as an Innocent Eye": Acts of Seeing and Ethical Aspects in Postmemorial Aesthetics -- Perpetrators' Archives and Critical Image Analysis -- The Bystander's Eyewitnessing -- Memory-Reenactment-Photography -- Topographies-Remains -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 15. Who's Afraid of Walter Benjamin? Dealing with the Problem of "Universalization" of Shoah Narration in Czech Literature -- Introduction -- Against the Idea of the Permanent Progress of Humanity -- The Escape into the Illusion of Golden Age -- Wartime Czech-Jewish Theater Plays Facing Catastrophe -- Images, Not Events of the Past. A Glimpse at Postwar Plays -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 16. Postcatastrophic Approaches to the Shoah in Contemporary Czech Poetry: Radek Malý's Collection Little Darkness -- Introduction -- Radek Malý's Poetry and the Concept of Postcatastrophe -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part IV: Re-Mediating Catastrophes in Contemporary (Pop-)Culture -- 17. Holocaust Topoi, or "How Long Can We Punish Ourselves for a Grandfather Holding a Match?": Jedwabne and the Pop-Cultural Afterlife of the Catastrophe -- Holocaust Topoi: Rules of the Game -- Ernst Robert Curtius: Making Sense of Catastrophe -- Reinhart Koselleck: Finding Sense in Postcatastrophe -- Mieke Bal: Explaining Postcatastrophic Epistemology -- Michał Głowiński: Different Topoi for Different Catastrophes -- The Living Body of Holocaust Topoi -- Topoi: How to Uncover the Disgusting Truth -- Jedwabne: "How Long Can We Punish Ourselves for a Grandfather Holding a Match -- (Everlasting) Closure (of the Postcatastrophe) -- Notes -- Bibliography.
18. The Visuality of the Holocaust in the Digital Environment: Examining the Case of Pinterest -- Introduction -- Pinterest as Media Memory Ecology -- Pinterest as Archive -- Entangled Memory -- Structure of Pinterest -- Image and Pin -- Boards -- Related Pins -- Visually Similar Results -- Cases-Entanglements -- Traveling -- Visual Similarity vs. Fixed Visuality -- Decontextualization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 19. Art, Trauma, and the Shoah: Postcatastrophic Narration and Contemporary Art from Hungary -- Introduction -- Postcatastrophic Aesthetics in Art: Lőrinc Borsos, Tulisz and Esterházy -- Lőrinc Borsos-Niemals vergessen! (2016) -- Hajnalka Tulisz-A büszkeség hal meg utoljára (2014) -- Marcell Esterházy-On the same Day (2013) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 20. The Image of People Jumping from Windows in the Warsaw Ghetto: Photographs from the Stroop Report in the Context of Polish Holocaust Remembrance -- Introduction: Iconic Image of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -- The Stroop Report in Poland: Encounter with the Persecutor's Eyes -- Nonvisual Elements in Literature: Nałkowska's The Cemetery Lady -- Witness in Art: Mieczysław Wejman's Dancers -- Suspended in the Air -- Image of a Falling Person in the 21st Century: Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & -- Incredibly Close -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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