Revisiting Holocaust representation in the post-witnessing era / Diana I. Popescu and Tanja Schult.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Memory and Imagination in the Post-Witness Era / Diana I. Popescu -- Part I Revisiting Artistic Practices of Holocaust Commemoration -- 2. List Mania i Holocaust Commemoration / Ernst van Alphen -- 3. Acts of Remembering in the Work of Esther Shalev-Gerz - From Embodied to Mediated Memory / Jacob Lund -- 4. Countermonuments as Spaces for Deep Memory / James E. Young -- 5. Sites that Matter: Current Developments of Urban Holocaust Commemoration in Berlin and Munich / Imke Girfsmann -- 6. Contemporary Holocaust Memorials in Berlin: On the Borders of the Sacred and the Profane / Tracy Jean Rosenberg -- Part II Sites of Struggle with Haunting Pasts -- 7. Holocaust Tourism: The Strange yet Familiar/the Familiar yet Strange / Tim Cole -- 8. To Go or Not to Go? Reflections on the Iconic Status of Auschwitz, its Increasing Distance and Prevailing Urgency / Tanja Schult -- 9. Holocaust Zombies: Mourning and Memory in Polish Contemporary Culture / Jan Borowicz -- 10. 'A Picnic Underpinned with Unease': Spring in Warsaw and New Genre Polish-Jewish Memory Work/ Erica Lehrer and Magdalena Waligorska -- 11. The Limits of Forgiveness and Postmodern Art / Ceri Eldin -- Part III Rethinking Representation in Literature and Popular Culture -- 12. Auschwitz, Adorno and the Ambivalence of Representation: The Holocaust as a Point of Reference in Contemporary Literature / Hampus Osth Gustafsson -- 13. Questions of Re(Presentation) in Uwe Boll's Auschwitz (2011) / Elizabeth M. Ward -- 14. 'Ordinary Women' as Perpetrators in European Holocaust Films / Ingrid Lewis -- 15. Real Imagination? Holocaust Comics in Europe / Christine Gundermann -- Part IV Memory Politics in Post-2000 (Trans)National Contexts -- 16. Austria's Post-Holocaust Jewish Community: A Subaltern Counterpublic between the Ethics and Morality of Memory / Christian Karner -- 17. Cosmopolitan Memory in a National Context: The Care of the 'Living History Forum' / Kristin Wagrell -- 18. Holocaust Remembrance as 'Civil Religion': The Case of the Stockholm Declaration (2000) / Larissa Allwork -- Index