Renegotiating postmemory : the Holocaust in contemporary German-language Jewish literature / Maria Roca Lizarazu.

"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"--

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Main Author: Roca Lizarazu, Maria, 1985- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2020.
Series:Dialogue and disjunction.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Holocaust memory in the new millennium-between continuity and change
  • Rethinking testimony : authenticity, "travelling memories," and post-Holocaust Jewish identities in Benjamin Stein's Die Leinwand
  • "Im Land der Väter und Verräter" : intertextuality, influence, and the problem of symbiosis in Maxim Biller's writing
  • Contrapuntal memory, dialogism, and irony : challenges to transnationalism in Vladimir Vertlib's Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur
  • From the family to the metamemorial novel : Eva Menasse's fiction
  • Conclusion: The critique of the critique of representation; self- and metareflexivity in contemporary Holocaust fiction.