cam a22 5 4500 599805552 CHVBK 20200927082042.0 200526t20202021nyu b||| 001 0 eng| 2020023763 GBC0-81468 bnb 019834243 Uk 978-0-367-44297-2 hardback 0-367-44297-3 978-1-00-308754-0 ebook 978-1-00-017108-2 (ePub ebook) 978-1-00-017102-0 (PDF ebook) 978-1-00-017105-1 (Mobipocket ebook) (IDSBB)007216013 (OCoLC)1152489396 DLC ger DLC OCLCO OCLCF UKMGB rda PS153.J4 W55 2020 809/.93358405318 23 HU 1729 rvk Holocaust narratives trauma, memory and identity across generations Thorsten Wilhelm 2008 New York, NY Routledge 2020 ©2021 1 volume 23 cm Text txt rdacontent/ger ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen n rdamedia/ger Band nc rdacarrier/ger Routledge studies in comparative literature Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction : Holocaust traumata and their generational legacies and emanations. Generations : structural frameworks -- The dialogical nature of (collective) trauma -- Trauma theory : concepts, implications, outlooks -- Moving trauma theory into the generation of postmemory -- Living in the aftermath : forms of trauma -- Insterstices between individual and cultural trauma -- Trauma as connective force -- Structure of the book -- Narrating the inexpressible : Wiesel's Night as testimonial trendsetter. God on the gallows : doublings of faith -- Trauma in the mirror : identities in the face of trauma -- Paradigmatic accuser : connecting audiences -- Witness in search of meaning and silence -- Surviving and remembering : representing trauma in the present -- The truth of fiction in Louis Begley's Wartime lies. Narrated identities : fictionalization of self and its actual facts -- Negotiating fact and fiction in meaningful representation for the audience --^ The creation of meaning and its passing ownership -- (R/De-)construction of narrative and real identity -- Asserting control by narrative means -- Rescuing one's memory from past traumata : Cheryl Pearl Sucher's The rescue of memory. Past and present : making a stance of one's own -- Photographs and other stories : past negatives and healing trauma -- Generational vonnections : approaching first- and second-generation trauma -- First-hand trauma in second-generation writing -- Emancipation through embedding : establishing a meaningful presence of the past -- Meaningful incorporation of past trauma into present narratives -- Encaustic memories : second-generation assertions in Rosenbaum's Second hand smoke. Traumatic impositions : connecting first- and second-generation trauma -- Encountering the ghosts : generational connections to the past -- Close contact : breaking down past and present distinctions -- Imposing trauma : between filial rage and generational forgiveness --^ Individual and cultural authorship over trauma stories -- Damaged goods : navigating parental trauma and one's own -- Exclusion from and inclusion into parental narratives -- Remembering, letting go, and incorporating the past into the present -- Progressive and tragic narrative outlook in overcoming trauma -- Connecting worlds : Narrative networks in Horn's The world to come. Generational temporal connections -- Choosing narrative, choosing life -- Linguistic connections to translated pasts -- Storied bridges : connecting present, past, and future worlds -- Meaningful narratives : paper bridges between (past) trauma and (present) meanings -- Connecting worlds : people as stories -- Creating a future from the past -- Stories as narrative intersections between generations -- When memory fails : fiction as history in Everything Is illuminated. Narrative trajectories : limitations of fictional meaning creation -- Generational positions : midrashic engagements and circular historicity --^ (Re-)Constructing the past : interrelations between the place and its stories -- Language and silence : connective phantasmagorias of meaning -- Workable terminologies : integrating past-tensed facts -- Fictional records : tracking meanings between past and present -- Narrative realities : permeating events and stories -- Imaginative representation : memory's narrative dependencies -- Generational catharsis in dyadic, generational encounters -- Conclusion : the future of trauma "Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations analyzes individual multi-generational frameworks of Holocaust trauma to answer one essential question: How do these narratives change to not only transmit the trauma of the Holocaust - and in the process add meaning to what is inherently an event that annihilates meaning - but also construct the trauma as a connector to a past that needs to be continued in the present?"-- American literature Jewish authors History and criticism Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatur) Psychic trauma in literature Collective memory in literature Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography American literature Jewish authors fast Collective memory in literature fast Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literatur) fast Psychic trauma in literature fast Juden (DE-588)4028808-0 gnd Judenvernichtung (DE-588)4073091-8 gnd Judenvernichtung (Motiv) (DE-588)4122228-3 gnd Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd Trauma (Motiv) (DE-588)4401750-9 gnd USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd Criticism, interpretation, etc fast Wilhelm Thorsten author ebook version 978-1-000-17108-2 BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 acq-record IDSBB A100 A100 100FM UBH IDSBB 490 0- Routledge studies in comparative literature IDSBB 775 08 ebook version 978-1-000-17108-2 IDSBB 700 1- Wilhelm Thorsten author