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 Holocaustwhether in text, film, or material cultureare 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.
Recenzijos
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 Schlinks 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 Aaronss essay on Nora Krugs Belonging, Sarah Painitzs essay on Ruth Klügers less-known book unterwegs verloren, Amy Kaminskys study of Edgardo Cozarinskys Lejos de dónde, and Marat Grinbergs analysis of three Holocaust television series. The contributors bring differing theories to their essays[ .] Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice Reviews *
Introduction
Chapter 1: Selling the Holocaust in 21st Century France
Hilene Flanzbaum, Butler University
Chapter 2: Life is Beautiful, or Not: The Myth of the Good Italian
Shira Klein, Chapman University
Chapter 3: Not my Holocaust: MAUS and Memory in the Polish Classroom
Holli Levitsky, Loyola Marymount University
Chapter 4: Germans, Migration and Holocaust Memory in Contemporary
Literature
Agnes Mueller, University of South Carolina
Chapter 5: The Burden of the Third Generation in Germany: Nora Krugs
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Victoria Aarons, Trinity University
Chapter 6: An Impossible Homecoming: Ruth Klugers Austria
Sarah Painitz, Butler University
Chapter 7: Fractures and Refraction in Argentina: Prosthetic Memory and
Edgardo Cozarinskys Lejos de donde
Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota
Chapter 8: Anglicization and the Holocaust in Judith Kerr and Eva Tuckers
Fiction
Joshua Lander, University of Glasgow
Chapter 9: Collective Disengagement: Canadas National Holocaust Memorial
Lizy Mostowski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chapter 10: Forgetting and Remembering: The Holocaust in Australian Fiction
Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia
Chapter 11: We Are the New Children: Shoah and Israeli Childhood in Nava
Semels And the RatLaughed
Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Louisville
Chapter 12: Representing the Holocaust and Jewishness in Contemporary
Television: The Man inthe High Castle,Hunters and Juda
Marat Grinberg, Reed College
Index
About the Contributors
Hilene S. Flanzbaum is the Allegra Stewart Chair of Modern Literature at Butler University.
