Jewish Identity in Western Pop Culture - The Holocaust and Trauma Through Modernity

This book looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis on aspects of its impact on popular culture.

List of contents

Producing the 'Jewish Problem' Life on the Edge It Almost Needn't Have Been the Germans The Wall at the End of the World The Banality of Representation Trauma and Memory in the Post - Holocaust West Before Holocaust Memory Why Were the Sixties So Jewish? Jews, Punk and the Holocaust Buffy the Vampire Slayer

About the author

JON STRATTON is Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia.

Summary

This book looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis on aspects of its impact on popular culture.

Product details

• Authors: J Stratton, J. Stratton
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2015
• EAN: 9781349372614
• ISBN: 978-1-349-37261-4
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Culture, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Ethnology, Judaism, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Literary theory, North America (USA and Canada), Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Literature: history and criticism, culture;Holocaust;identity;Judaism