Physical Description
xi, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : the demands of Holocaust representation
After Adorno : culture in the wake of catastrophe
Before Auschwitz : Maurice Blanchot, from now on
"The barbed wire of the postwar world" : Ruth Klüger's traumatic realism
Unbearable witness : Charlotte Delbo's traumatic timescapes
Reading Jewish : Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, and the Holocaust postmemory
"Touch an event to begin" : Americanizing the Holocaust
Conclusion : After the "final solution" : from the "Jewish question" to Jewish questioning.
ISBN
0816634580
0816634599 (pb)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-313) and index.
Introduction : the demands of Holocaust representation -- After Adorno : culture in the wake of catastrophe -- Before Auschwitz : Maurice Blanchot, from now on -- "The barbed wire of the postwar world" : Ruth Klüger's traumatic realism -- Unbearable witness : Charlotte Delbo's traumatic timescapes -- Reading Jewish : Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, and the Holocaust postmemory -- "Touch an event to begin" : Americanizing the Holocaust -- Conclusion : After the "final solution" : from the "Jewish question" to Jewish questioning.
