- Summary
- The Holocaust is an international event, but the brutal crimes happened in specific places and are remembered, to a large degree, in various national discourses. The essays in this book examine the complex and often ambiguous relationship between national identity and the legacy of the Holocaust in countries including Lithuania, Poland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, the United States, and Israel. Specificity about place and national context matters very much when we talk and write about the Holocaust, and this book takes up important questions about the relationship between the traumatic past and our sense of place, language, and cultural or political identity in the post-Holocaust world.
- Other Title
- Reading Holocaust Fiction at the End of the Twentieth Century : Jakob the Liar and Life is Beautiful.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2014]
- Contents
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Introduction / Jennifer Taylor
PART I: EUROPE: LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST
Staging Austria's Past in Contemporary Vienna: Robert Schindel's 2002 Film Adaptation of Geburtig / Christina Guenther
From le genocide to la shoah: Changing Patternsin Documentary Representations of the Holocaust in France / Ferzina Banaji
Death in Vienna: Horrible Modernity in Michael Haneke's The Seventh Continent / Jennifer Taylor
Lithuanian Nationalism and the Holocaust: Public Expressions of Memoryin Museums and Sites of Memoryin Vilnius, Lithuania / Edna Kantorovitz Southard / Robert Southard
Soil of Annihilation: Czeslaw Milosz's Pastoral Poland and the Holocaust / Donna Coffey
Disgrace and Torment: The Holocaust in Zofia Nalkowska's Medallions / Zofia Lesinska
PART II:THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL: LIVING WITH THE PAST IN NEW LANDS
Vulnerability in Spielberg's America: Schindler's List and the Ethic of Commerce / Sarah Hagelin
The Erotics of Auschwitz: An American Tale / Phyllis Lassner
Reading Holocaust Fiction at the End of the Twentieth Century: Jakob the Liar and Life Is Beautiful / Jennifr Taylor
Homecoming Deconstucted in Israeli Holocaust Literature / Iris Milner
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- Other Authors/Editors
- Taylor, Jennifer, 1961- editor of compilation.
Taylor, Jennifer, 1961-
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Jennifer Taylor -- PART I: EUROPE: LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST -- Staging Austria's Past in Contemporary Vienna: Robert Schindel's 2002 Film Adaptation of Geburtig / Christina Guenther -- From le genocide to la shoah: Changing Patternsin Documentary Representations of the Holocaust in France / Ferzina Banaji -- Death in Vienna: Horrible Modernity in Michael Haneke's The Seventh Continent / Jennifer Taylor -- Lithuanian Nationalism and the Holocaust: Public Expressions of Memoryin Museums and Sites of Memoryin Vilnius, Lithuania / Edna Kantorovitz Southard / Robert Southard -- Soil of Annihilation: Czeslaw Milosz's Pastoral Poland and the Holocaust / Donna Coffey -- Disgrace and Torment: The Holocaust in Zofia Nalkowska's Medallions / Zofia Lesinska -- PART II:THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL: LIVING WITH THE PAST IN NEW LANDS -- Vulnerability in Spielberg's America: Schindler's List and the Ethic of Commerce / Sarah Hagelin -- The Erotics of Auschwitz: An American Tale / Phyllis Lassner -- Reading Holocaust Fiction at the End of the Twentieth Century: Jakob the Liar and Life Is Beautiful / Jennifr Taylor -- Homecoming Deconstucted in Israeli Holocaust Literature / Iris Milner -- I
