The Holocaust across Borders

Trauma, Atrocity, and Representation in Literature and Culture

Hilene S Flanzbaum editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:29th Jun '21

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“Literature of the Holocaust” courses, whether taught in high schools or at universities, necessarily cover texts from a broad range of international contexts. Instructors are required, regardless of their own disciplinary training, to become comparatists and discuss all works with equal expertise. This books offers analyses of the ways in which representations of the Holocaust—whether in text, film, or material culture—are shaped by national context, providing a valuable pedagogical source in terms of both content and methodology. As memory yields to post-memory, nation of origin plays a larger role in each re-telling, and the chapters in this book explore this notion covering well-known texts like Night (Hungary), Survival in Auschwitz (Italy), MAUS (United States), This Way to the Gas (Poland), and The Reader (Germany), while also introducing lesser-known representations from countries like Argentina or Australia.

Flanzbaum acknowledges in her introduction that she was “compelled to examine the relative use of Holocaust literature across national boundaries” when she realized that Bernhard Schlink’s novel The Reader (1995) would be read differently in different countries. This collection includes analyses of fiction, memoir, television, film, and the Canadian National Holocaust Monument. The works studied come from Australia, Austria, the US, Italy, Germany, Israel, France, the UK, and Argentina. All the essays are well researched and competent, but deserving special mention are Victoria Aarons’s essay on Nora Krug’s Belonging, Sarah Painitz’s essay on Ruth Klüger’s less-known book unterwegs verloren, Amy Kaminsky’s study of Edgardo Cozarinsky’s Lejos de dónde, and Marat Grinberg’s analysis of three Holocaust television series. The contributors bring differing theories to their essays[.] Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice Reviews *

ISBN: 9781793612052

Dimensions: 228mm x 161mm x 25mm

Weight: 653g

296 pages