Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature

This anthology offers fresh approaches to understanding how grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators treat their traumatic legacies.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Third-Generation Holocaust Inheritance in Two Graphic Narratives: A Layering of Histories and Legacies
Victoria Aarons
Chapter 2. "Things will never be alright again": Third Generation German Jewish Literature and the Questions of Remembrance, Reconciliation, and Revenge
Luisa Banki
Chapter 3. Julie Orringer's The Flight Portfolio: A New Turn in Holocaust Representation
Alan L. Berger
Chapter 4. Categories of Catastrophe: Third-Generation Reckoning in Susanne Fritz's Becoming a Child of War
Katra Byram
Chapter 5. The "Tumor of Memory" in The Origin of Violence
Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller
Chapter 6.: Numbers and Portraits: Reframing Auschwitz Tattoos in Numbered (2012)
Elke Heckner
Chapter 7. Representations of Identity and the Holocaust Archive in Third-Generation Graphic Narrative: Nora Krug's Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Dana Mih¿ilescu
Chapter 8. Writing Inherited Stories: A Study of Representational Anxiety in Australian Third-Generation Holocaust Literature
Tess Scholfield-Peters
Chapter 9. Animals and the Holocaust in Nava Semel's And the Rat Laughed
Naomi Sokoloff
Chapter 10. Third-Generation Holocaust Survivors in Israel: Cultural Narratives
Liat Steir-Livny
Chapter 11. Distant Relations: Third-Generation Perpetrator Descendants Writing in English
Sue Vice

About the author

Alan L. Berger is Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies and director of the Center for the Study of Values and Violence After Auschwitz at Florida Atlantic University.
Lucas F.W. Wilson is Justice, Equity, and Transformation Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Calgary.

Summary

This anthology offers fresh approaches to understanding how grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators treat their traumatic legacies.

Product details

• Authors: Alan L. Berger, Alan L. Wilson Berger
• Assisted by: Alan L Berger (Editor), Alan L. Berger (Editor), Lucas F W Wilson (Editor), Lucas F. W. Wilson (Editor), Lucas F.W. Wilson (Editor), Gila Safran Naveh (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781666932515
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-251-5
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Jewish Studies, The Holocaust, Relating to Jewish people & groups, Social groups: religious groups & communities, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust