The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature

"The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of Holocaust writing. At its centre is a series of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars within the field: these address genre-specific issues such as the question of biographical and historical truth in Holocaust testimony, as well as broader topics including the politics of Holocaust representation and the validity of comparative approaches to the Holocaust in literature and criticism. The volume includes a substantial section detailing new and emergent trends within the literary study of the Holocaust, a concise glossary of major critical terminology, and an annotated bibliography of relevant research material. Featuring original essays by: Victoria Aarons, Jenni Adams, Michael Bernard-Donals, Matthew Boswell, Stef Craps, Richard Crownshaw, Brett Ashley Kaplan and Fernando Herrero-Matoses, Adrienne Kertzer, Erin McGlothlin, David Miller, and Sue Vice."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Cover Half Title Also Available from Bloomsbury Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Traces, Dis/Continuities, Complicities: An Introduction to Holocaust Literature Traces Dis/Continuities Complicities Volume Outline Current Research 1 A Genre of Rupture: The Literary Language of the Holocaust 2 Questions of Truth in Holocaust Memory and Testimony False and Embellished Testimony Conclusion 3 After Epic: Adorno’s Scream and the Shadows of Lyric 4 Relationships to Realism in Post-Holocaust Fiction: Conflicted Realism and the Counterfactual Historical Novel Conflicted Realism in Holocaust Discourse The Counterfactual Historical Novel Conflicted Realism and the Counterfactual Modifications of Realism Multivalence and Closure Multiple Referential Contexts Transparency 5 Theory and the Ethics of Holocaust Representation Holocaust Representation Holocaust Ethics and the Riven Subject Conclusion 6 ‘Don’t You Know Anything?’: Childhood and the Holocaust Child Witnesses Fairy Tales and Holocaust Representation Childhood Innocence, Historical Knowledge and Crossover Texts Innocence and Holocaust Knowledge in the Twenty-First Century 7 Holocaust Postmemory: W. G. Sebald and Gerhard Richter Sebald (1944–2001) Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) 8 Narrative Perspective and the Holocaust Perpetrator: Edgar Hilsenrath’s The Nazi and the Barber and Jonathan Littell’s The 9 Holocaust Literature and the Taboo Histories of What Cannot Be Said Death and the Unconscious: ‘Daddy’ and The White Hotel The ‘New Discourse’ and Perpetrator Taboos: The Ogre and The Kindly Ones Transgression and Truth 10 Holocaust Literature: Comparative Perspectives 11 Depoliticizing and Repoliticizing Holocaust Memory New Directions in Holocaust Literary Studies Part 1: Proximities Part 2: License, Prohibition and Play Part 3: Intersections and Staged Encounters Conclusion Annotated Bibliography Glossary of Major Terms and Concepts Index