- Summary
- "Facts about the Holocaust are one way of learning about its devastating impact, but presenting personal manifestations of trauma can be more effective than citing statistics. Holocaust Theater addresses a selection of contemporary plays about the Holocaust, examining how collective and individual trauma is represented in dramatic texts, and considering the ways in which spectators might be swayed viscerally, intellectually, and emotionally by witnessing such representations onstage. Drawing on interviews with a number of the playwrights alongside psychoanalytic studies of survivor trauma, this volume seeks to foster understanding of the traumatic effects of the Holocaust on subsequent generations. Holocaust Theater offers a vital account of theater's capacity to represent the effects of Holocaust trauma."--Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Plunka, Gene A., 1949- author.
- Published
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
©2018
- Contents
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Introduction
The spectre of the Holocaust among survivors
Dramatizing survivor guilt
Dramatizing childhood survivor trauma
Symptoms of psychological problems among children of survivors
Aggressive behavior among offspring of Holocaust survivors
Coda.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index.
Introduction -- The spectre of the Holocaust among survivors -- Dramatizing survivor guilt -- Dramatizing childhood survivor trauma -- Symptoms of psychological problems among children of survivors -- Aggressive behavior among offspring of Holocaust survivors -- Coda.
