Traumatic realism : the demands of Holocaust representation

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Label

Traumatic realism : the demands of Holocaust representation

Title remainder

the demands of Holocaust representation

Statement of responsibility

Michael Rothberg

Title variation

Demands of Holocaust representation

Creator

• Rothberg, Michael

Subject

• HISTORY -- Holocaust
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• 1939-1945
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Historiography
• Electronic book
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Genre

• Electronic book
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

COCUF

Dewey number

940.53/18/072

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

D804.348

LC item number

.R68 2000eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography