Physical Description
407 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
German memory, judicial interrogation, and historical reconstruction : writing perpetrator history from postwar testimony / Christopher R. Browning
Historical emplotment and the problem of truth / Hayden White
On emplotment : two kinds of ruin / Perry Anderson
History, counterhistory, and narrative / Amos Funkenstein
Just one witness / Carlo Ginzburg
Of plots, witnesses, and judgments / Martin Jay
Representing the Holocaust : reflections on the historians' debate / Dominick LaCapra
Historical understanding and counterrationality : the Judenrat as epistemological vantage / Dan Diner
History beyond the pleasure principle : some thoughts on the representation of trauma / Eric L. Santner
Habermas, enlightenment, and antisemitism / Vincent P. Pecora
Between image and phrase : progressive history and the "final solution" as dispossession / Sande Cohen.
Science, modernity, and the "final solution" / Mario Biagioli
Holocaust and the end of history : postmodern historiography in cinema / Anton Kaes
Whose story is it, anyway? : ideology and psychology in the representation of the Shoah in Israeli literature / Yael S. Feldman
Translating Paul Celan's "Todesfuge" : rhythm and repetition as metaphor / John Felstiner
"The grave in the air" : unbound metaphors in post-Holocaust poetry / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
The dialectics of unspeakability : language, silence, and the narratives of desubjectification / Peter Haidu
The representation of limits / Berel Lang
The book of the destruction / Geoffrey H. Hartman.
Other Authors/Editors
Friedländer, Saul,
ISBN
0674707656
0674707664 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes
Papers from the conference on "Nazism and the 'Final Solution': Probing the Limits of Representation", held at the University of California, Los Angeles, on Apr. 26-29, 1990.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-398) and index.
