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Zusatztext Remembering the Holocaust pulls together an impressive body of current Holocaust research to draw our attention to the role of place in Holocaust narratives. Investigating the gap between place and narration, the book boldly illuminates the incongruity in our approach to former sites of terror that are expected to convey Holocaust memories but simultaneously acknowledge the very impossibility of doing so. Jilovsky carefully elucidates texts by the first, second, and third generation to highlight the complexity of memory places and critically shed light on various kinds of travel to such sites. Her work thus underscores the importance of physical sites in literary representations while precisely examining the entanglements between place and memory. Informationen zum Autor Esther Jilovsky is Honorary Fellow in German Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the editor of In the Shadows of Memory: The Holocaust and the Third Generation (2016). Vorwort Traces the evolution of Holocaust memory through the prism of place as it passes from survivors to their children and grandchildren. Zusammenfassung An intriguing analysis of how place constructs memory and how memory constructs place, Remembering the Holocaust shows how visiting sites such as Auschwitz shapes the transfer of Holocaust memory from one generation to the next. Through the discussion of a range of memoirs and novels, including Landscapes of Memory by Ruth Kluger, Too Many Men by Lily Brett, The War After by Anne Karpf and Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, Remembering the Holocaust reveals the pivotal yet complicated role of place in each generation’s writing about the Holocaust.This book provides an insightful and nuanced investigation of the effect of the Holocaust upon families, from survivors of the genocide to members of the second and even third generations of families involved. By deploying an innovative combination of generational and literary study of Holocaust survivor families focussed on place, Remembering the Holocaust makes an important contribution to the field of Holocaust Studies that will be of interest to scholars and anyone interested in Holocaust remembrance. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction: Generations, Witnessing and PlaceChapter 1: Survivor Memoirs of Return: Encountering the Past in the PresentChapter 2: The Second Generation: Searching for the Past at Sites of MemoryChapter 3: The Third Generation: The Role of Place in Imagining the PastChapter 4: The Paradox of Place and Bearing Witness: Manipulated Topographies, Pilgrimage and Holocaust TourismConclusion: If Place is not a Witness, what is?NotesBibliographyIndex...
