Using and abusing the Holocaust /

"All of the essays in Using and Abusing the Holocaust consider Holocaust-related issues, but many of them are also concerned with a problem that affects consciousness in the modern era: how to go on living fruitfully amidst almost daily announcements of unnatural or violent death. Several exami...

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Main Author: Langer, Lawrence L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006.
Series:Jewish literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • The pursuit of death in Holocaust narrative
  • Anne Frank revisited
  • Life is not beautiful
  • Fragments of memory : a myth of past time
  • Wounded families in Holocaust discourse
  • Memory and justice after the Holocaust and apartheid
  • Witnessing atrocity : the testimonial evidence
  • Moralizing and demoralizing the Holocaust
  • Representing the Holocaust
  • The book of Genesis in the art of Samuel Bak.