End of the Holocaust

Informationen zum Autor Alvin H. Rosenfeld holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and is Professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington. He is author of A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature and Imagining Hitler , and editor of Thinking about the Holocaust: After Half a Century and Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives . Klappentext The book concludes with a powerful warning about the possible consequences of "the end of the Holocaustin public consciousness. Zusammenfassung Rosenfeld charts the cultural forces that have minimized the Holocaust in popular perceptions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Popular Culture and the Politics of Memory 2. The Rhetoric of Victimization 3. The Americanization of the Holocaust 4. Anne Frank: The Posthumous Years 5. The Anne Frank We Remember/The Anne Frank We Forget 6. Jean Améry: The Anguish of the Witness 7. Primo Levi: The Survivor as Victim 8. Surviving Survival: Elie Wiesel and Imre Kertész 9. The End of the Holocaust Epilogue: A "Second Holocaust"?

Product details

• Authors: Alvin Rosenfeld, Alvin H Rosenfeld, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Rosenfeld Alvin H
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2011
• EAN: 9780253356437
• ISBN: 978-0-253-35643-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Indiana University Press
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)