The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture
This bold intervention into the debate over the memory and 'post-memory' of the Holocaust both scrutinizes recent academic theories of post-Holocaust trauma and provides a new reading of literary and architectural memory texts related to the Holocaust.
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Also by Richard Crownshaw THE FUTURE OF MEMORY (co-edited with Jane Kilby and Antony Rowland)
The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture Richard Crownshaw Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
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Contents Preface
vi
Acknowledgements
xi
1 Theory after Memory
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2 On Reading Sebald: The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz
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3 Holocaust Memory and the Air War: W. G. Sebald’s Luftkrieg und Literatur (‘Air War and Literature: Zürich Lectures’)
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4 Grey Zones of Memory?
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5 Reading the Perp
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