Research Catalog

Title

After testimony : the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust narrative for the future / Edited by Jakob Lothe, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and James Phelan.

Publication

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lothe, Jakob.
• Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939-
• Phelan, James, 1951-

Description

ix, 380 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Theory and interpretation of narrative

Uniform Title

Theory and interpretation of narrative series.

Subject

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Imre Kertész's fatelessness : fiction as testimony / J. Hillis Miller -- Challenges for the successor generations of German-Jewish authors in Germany / Beatrice Sandberg -- Recent literature confronting the past : France and beyond / Philippe Mesnard, translated by Terence Cave -- Performing a perpetrator as witness : Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- The ethics and aesthetics of backward narration in Martin Amis's Time's arrow / James Phelan -- The face-to-face encounter in Holocaust narrative / Jeremy Hawthorn -- Knowing little, adding nothing : the ethics and aesthetics of remembering in Espen Søbye's Kathe, always lived in Norway / Anniken Greve -- "When facts are scarce" : authenticating strategies in writing by children of survivors / Irene Kacandes -- Objects of return / Marianne Hirsch -- Narrative, memory, and visual image : W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur and Austerlitz / Jakob Lothe -- Which narrative of Auschwitz? A narrative analysis of Laurence Rees's documentary Auschwitz : the Nazis and "the final solution" / Anette H. Storeide -- Moving testimonies : "unhomed geography" and the Holocaust documentary of return / Janet Walker -- From Auschwitz to the Temple Mount : binding and unbinding the Israeli narrative / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- The melancholy generation : Grossman's Book of interior grammar / Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan -- Fractured relations : the multidirectional Holocaust memory of Caryl Phillips / Michael Rothberg -- Hiroshima and the Holocaust : tales of war and defeat in Japan and Germany-a contrastive perspective / Anne Thelle.

Call Number

*PXK 12-1279

ISBN

• 9780814251829 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 081425182X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780814211762 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0814211763 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2011038976

OCLC

YBP 2011038976

Title

After testimony : the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust narrative for the future / Edited by Jakob Lothe, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and James Phelan.

Imprint

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2012.

Series

Theory and interpretation of narrative

Theory and interpretation of narrative series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lothe, Jakob.

Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939-

Phelan, James, 1951-

Research Call Number

*PXK 12-1279