Postmodernism and Holocaust Denial

Postmodernism and Holocaust Denial

Author: Robert Eaglestone

Publisher: Totem Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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Deborah Lipstadt claimed that David Irving was a Hitler partisan wearing blinkers bending and manipulating evidence: the most dangerous spokesperson for Holocaust denial. Irving sued her and her publishers in a high profile case and lost.


The Holocaust and the Postmodern

The Holocaust and the Postmodern

Author: Robert Eaglestone

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004-12-09

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 0199265933

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Robert Eaglestone argues that postmodernism is a response to the Holocaust. He offers a range of new perspectives, including new ways of looking at testimony and at and recent Holocaust fiction; explores controversies in Holocaust history; looks at the importance of the Holocaust for recent philosophy; and asks what the Holocaust means for reason, ethics, and for being human


Postmodernism and the Holocaust

Postmodernism and the Holocaust

Author: Alan Milchman

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9789042005914

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This book is the first sustained inquiry into the ways in which postmodern thinkers have grappled with the historical bases, implications, and methodological problems of the Holocaust. The book examines the thinking of Arendt, Levinas, Foucault, Lyotard, and Derrida, all of whom have recognized the centrality of the Nazi genocide to the epoch in which we live. The essays written for this volume constitute a wide-ranging study of the efforts of postmodernism to articulate the Holocaust.


How to Write about the Holocaust

How to Write about the Holocaust

Author: Theodor Pelekanidis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781003224365

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How to Write About the Holocaust is a contribution to ongoing debates in historiography and Holocaust studies. More specifically, it combines the theoretical framework that has developed in historiography in the last half a century with the demands of Holocaust representation. The first part of the book analyzes the newest trends in theory of history, focusing especially on postmodernism, starting from the works of the American historian and theorist Hayden White and tracing the genealogy of the postmodern influence in history both from an epistemological and from a political perspective. The second part continues by incorporating these theoretical developments into specific written examples on the Holocaust. By analyzing major works about it, including Saul Friedländer's and Dan Stone's histories of the Holocaust, the book attempts to answer questions like: what is the most appropriate way to write about the Holocaust and what can theory teach us about the practice of history? To conclude, the volume explores the connection between history and literature and asks if the distinction between fact and fiction has become outdated.


Trauma, Postmodernism and the Aftermath of World War II

Trauma, Postmodernism and the Aftermath of World War II

Author: P. Crosthwaite

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-01-29

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0230594727

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The first sustained study of the relationship between Anglo-American postmodernist fiction and the Second World War, Crosthwaite demonstrates that postmodernism has not abandoned history but has rather reformulated it in terms of trauma that is traceable, time and again, to the catastrophes of the 1940s.


Traumatic Realism

Traumatic Realism

Author: Michael Rothberg

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780816634590

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Drawing on a wide range of texts, Michael Rothberg puts forth an overarching framework for understanding representations of the Holocaust. Through close readings of such writers and thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Ruth Klüger, Charlotte Delbo, Art Spiegelman, and Philip Roth and an examination of films by Steven Spielberg and Claude Lanzmann, Rothberg demonstrates how the Holocaust as a traumatic event makes three fundamental demands on representation: a demand for documentation, a demand for reflection on the limits of representation, and a demand for engagement with the public.


Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature

Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature

Author: Joost Krijnen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-05-02

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9004316078

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The Holocaust is often said to be unrepresentable. Yet since the 1990s, a new generation of Jewish American writers have been returning to this history again and again, insisting on engaging with it in highly playful, comic, and “impious” ways. Focusing on the fiction of Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Nathan Englander, this book suggests that this literature cannot simply be dismissed as insensitive or improper. It argues that these Jewish American authors engage with the Holocaust in ways that renew and ensure its significance for contemporary generations. These ways, moreover, are intricately connected to efforts of finding new means of expressing Jewish American identity, and of moving beyond the increasingly apparent problems of postmodernism.


Jewish American and Holocaust Literature

Jewish American and Holocaust Literature

Author: Alan L. Berger

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0791484440

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Challenging the notion that Jewish American and Holocaust literature have exhausted their limits, this volume reexamines these closely linked traditions in light of recent postmodern theory. Composed against the tumultuous background of great cultural transition and unprecedented state-sponsored systematic murder, Jewish American and Holocaust literature both address the concerns of postmodern human existence in extremis. In addition to exploring how various mythic and literary themes are deconstructed in the lurid light of Auschwitz, this book provides critical reassessments of Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth, as well as contemporary Jewish American writers who are extending this vibrant tradition into the new millennium. These essays deepen and enrich our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah.


Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era

Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era

Author: Tanja Schult

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1137530421

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This volume explores post-2000s artistic engagements with Holocaust memory arguing that imagination plays an increasingly important role in keeping the memory of the Holocaust vivid for contemporary and future audiences.


Modern Fascism

Modern Fascism

Author: Gene Edward Veith (Jr.)

Publisher: Concordia Publishing House

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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With fascist ideology making a comeback today, the author proposes conservative Christian responses as the best antidote for overcoming them.