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Renegotiating Postmemory: The Holocaust in Contemporary German-Language Jewish Literature

Renegotiating Postmemory: The Holocaust in Contemporary German-Language Jewish Literature

Roca-Lizarazu, Maria

Hardcover

Series: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literatur, Book 7

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 164014045X
ISBN13: 9781640140455
Publisher: Camden House Inc
Published: Mar 16 2020
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
With the disappearance of the eyewitness generation and the globalization of Holocaust memory, this book interrogates key concepts in Holocaust and trauma studies through an assessment of contemporary German-language Jewish authors.

In the shifting media landscape of the twenty-first century, the second and third generations of German-language Jewish authors are grappling with the disappearance of the eyewitness generation and the hyper-mediation and globalization of Holocaust memory. Benjamin Stein, Maxim Biller, Vladmir Vertlib, and Eva Menasse each experiment with new approaches towards Holocaust representation and the Nazi past. This book investigates major shifts in Holocaust memory since the turn of the millennium, and argues that the works of these authors call for a much-needed reassessment of key concepts and terms in Holocaust discourse such as authenticity, empathy, normalization, representation, traumatic unspeakability, and postmemory.

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