Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2014];©2014
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Jennifer Taylor — PART I: EUROPE: LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST — Staging Austria’s past in contemporary Vienna: Robert Schindel’s 2002 film adaptation of Gebürtig / Christina Guenther — From le génocide to la shoah: changing patterns in documentary representations of the Holocaust in France / Ferzina Banaji — Death in Vienna: horrible modernity in Michael Haneke’s The Seventh Continent / Jennifer Taylor — Lithuanian nationalism and the Holocaust: public expressions of memory in museums and sites of memory in Vilnius, Lithuania / Edna Kantorovitz Southard & Robert Southard — Soil of annihilation: Czeslaw Milosz’s pastoral Poland and the Holocaust / Donna Coffey — Disgrace and torment: The Holocaust in Zofia Nałkowska’s Medallions / Zofia Lesinska — PART II:THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL: LIVING WITH THE PAST IN NEW LANDS — Vulnerability in Spielberg’s America: Schindler’s List and the ethic of commerce / Sarah Hagelin — The wrotics of Auschwitz: an American tale / Phyllis Lassner — Reading Holocaust fiction at the end of the twentieth century: Jakob the Liar and Life Is Beautiful / Jennifer Taylor — Homecoming deconstucted in Israeli Holocaust literature / Iris Milner.
- The Holocaust was an international event, but the brutal crimes happened in specific places and are remembered, to a large degree, in various national discourses. The essays in this book examine the complex and often ambiguous relationship between national identity and the legacy of the Holocaust in countries including Lithuania, Poland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, the United States, and Israel. Specificity about place and national context matters very much when we talk and write about the Holocaust, and this book takes up important questions about the relationship between the traumatic past and our sense of place, language, and cultural or political identity in the post-Holocaust world. — Publisher’s description.
Subjects:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Historiography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Influence.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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