Persistent Legacy - The Holocaust and German Studies

New essays by prominent scholars in German and Holocaust Studies exploring the boundaries and confluences between the fields and examining new transnational approaches to the Holocaust.

List of contents

Introduction
Never Over, Over and Over - Jennifer M. Kapczynski
The Voice of the Perpetrator, The Voices of the Survivors - Erin McGlothlin
Teaching Holocaust Memories as Part of "Germanistik" - Stephan Braese
"Aber das ist alles Vergangenheitsbewältigung": German Studies' "Holocaust Bubble" and Its Literary Aftermath - William Collins Donahue
Epistemology of the Hyphen: German-Jewish-Holocaust Studies - Leslie C. Morris
Writing Before the Shoah, and Reading After: Charlotte Salomon's Life? Or Theater? and Its Reception - Liliane Weissberg
The Power of Paratext: Jewish Authorship and Testimonial Authority in Benjamin Stein's Die Leinwand - Katja Garloff
Identifying with the Victims in the Land of the Perpetrators: Iris Hanika's Das Eigentliche and Kevin Vennemann's Nahe Jedenew - Sven Kramer
Laying Claim to Painful Truths in Survivor- and Perpetrator-Family Memoirs - Irene Kacandes
Pinpointing Evil: Nazi Family Photographs, Remediated - Brad Prager
Felix Moeller's Harlan: Im Schatten von Jud Süss as Family Drama - David Bathrick
Goebbels's Fear and Legacy: Babelsberg and Its Berlin Street as Cinematic Memory Place - Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann
Hitler in the Age of Irony: Timur Vermes's Er ist wieder da - Michael D. Richardson
Remembering Genocide in the Digital Age: The Afterlife of the Holocaust in Rwanda - Karen Remmler
The Memory Work of William Kentridge's Shadow Processions and His Drawings for Projection - Andreas Huyssen
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index

About the author

Erin McGlothlin, Jennifer M. Kapczynski

Product details

• Authors: David Bathrick, Andreas Huyssen, Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Erin Mcglothlin, Brad Prager
• Assisted by: Jennifer M Kapczynski (Editor), Jennifer M. Kapczynski (Editor), Erin Mcglothlin (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2016
• EAN: 9781571139610
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-961-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 643 g
• Series: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought; Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought; Dialogue and Disjunction: Stud
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)