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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Additional Physical Format: | ebook version : |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thorsten Wilhelm |
| ISBN: | 9780367442972 0367442973 |
| OCLC Number: | 1152489396 |
| Description: | xiv, 186 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : Holocaust traumata and their generational legacies and emanations. Generations : structural frameworks -- The dialogical nature of (collective) trauma -- Trauma theory : concepts, implications, outlooks -- Moving trauma theory into the generation of postmemory -- Living in the aftermath : forms of trauma -- Insterstices between individual and cultural trauma -- Trauma as connective force -- Structure of the book -- Narrating the inexpressible : Wiesel's Night as testimonial trendsetter. God on the gallows : doublings of faith -- Trauma in the mirror : identities in the face of trauma -- Paradigmatic accuser : connecting audiences -- Witness in search of meaning and silence -- Surviving and remembering : representing trauma in the present -- The truth of fiction in Louis Begley's Wartime lies. Narrated identities : fictionalization of self and its actual facts -- Negotiating fact and fiction in meaningful representation for the audience -- The creation of meaning and its passing ownership -- (R/De-)construction of narrative and real identity -- Asserting control by narrative means -- Rescuing one's memory from past traumata : Cheryl Pearl Sucher's The rescue of memory. Past and present : making a stance of one's own -- Photographs and other stories : past negatives and healing trauma -- Generational vonnections : approaching first- and second-generation trauma -- First-hand trauma in second-generation writing -- Emancipation through embedding : establishing a meaningful presence of the past -- Meaningful incorporation of past trauma into present narratives -- Encaustic memories : second-generation assertions in Rosenbaum's Second hand smoke. Traumatic impositions : connecting first- and second-generation trauma -- Encountering the ghosts : generational connections to the past -- Close contact : breaking down past and present distinctions -- Imposing trauma : between filial rage and generational forgiveness -- Individual and cultural authorship over trauma stories -- Damaged goods : navigating parental trauma and one's own -- Exclusion from and inclusion into parental narratives -- Remembering, letting go, and incorporating the past into the present -- Progressive and tragic narrative outlook in overcoming trauma -- Connecting worlds : Narrative networks in Horn's The world to come. Generational temporal connections -- Choosing narrative, choosing life -- Linguistic connections to translated pasts -- Storied bridges : connecting present, past, and future worlds -- Meaningful narratives : paper bridges between (past) trauma and (present) meanings -- Connecting worlds : people as stories -- Creating a future from the past -- Stories as narrative intersections between generations -- When memory fails : fiction as history in Everything Is illuminated. Narrative trajectories : limitations of fictional meaning creation -- Generational positions : midrashic engagements and circular historicity -- (Re-)Constructing the past : interrelations between the place and its stories -- Language and silence : connective phantasmagorias of meaning -- Workable terminologies : integrating past-tensed facts -- Fictional records : tracking meanings between past and present -- Narrative realities : permeating events and stories -- Imaginative representation : memory's narrative dependencies -- Generational catharsis in dyadic, generational encounters -- Conclusion : the future of trauma. |
| Series Title: | Routledge studies in comparative literature. |
| Responsibility: | Thorsten Wilhelm. |
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"A major achievement, bringing subtle analysis of Holocaust trauma to bear on the narratives that construct the collective discourse of its meanings. Wilhelm's fine analysis helps us understand the continuing impact of the Shoah on 'the memories of the future' generated by second and third generation witnesses." Professor Emeritus Murray Baumgarten, University of California, Santa Cruz and Founding Director, The Dickens Project "In his penetrating analysis Thorsten Wilhelm binds the remembrance of the past to a remembrance for the future. With every day that separates us from the Holocaust his work becomes more pressing. Wilhelm has summoned each of us to a testimony in which our very humanity is at stake." Professor David Patterson, Hillel Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas "The often invoked 'Never again!' relies on the continuous, while also impossible, re-presentation of the horrors and the on-going trauma of the Holocaust. This study is an acute and highly intelligent exploration into the trajectory of literary efforts to conceptualize, record, and narrate the memory of the experience of trauma beyond the generation of direct survivors." Dr. Margit Peterfy, Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Heidelberg Read more...
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- American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Collective memory in literature.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
- Historiography.
- American literature -- Jewish authors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
