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"Literature of the Holocaust" courses, whether taught in high schools or at universities, necessarily cover texts from a broad range of international contexts. Instructors are required, regardless of their own disciplinary training, to become comparatists and discuss all works with equal expertise. This books offers analyses of the ways in which representations of the Holocaust-whether in text, film, or material culture-are shaped by national context, providing a valuable pedagogical source in terms of both content and methodology. As memory yields to post-memory, nation of origin plays a larger role in each re-telling, and the chapters in this book explore this notion covering well-known texts like Night (Hungary), Survival in Auschwitz (Italy), MAUS (United States), This Way to the Gas (Poland), and The Reader (Germany), while also introducing lesser-known representations from countries like Argentina or Australia.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Selling the Holocaust in 21st Century France
Hilene Flanzbaum, Butler University
Chapter 2: Life is Beautiful, or Not: The Myth of the Good Italian
Shira Klein, Chapman University
Chapter 3: Not my Holocaust: MAUS and Memory in the Polish Classroom
Holli Levitsky, Loyola Marymount University
Chapter 4: Germans, Migration and Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature
Agnes Mueller, University of South Carolina
Chapter 5: The Burden of the Third Generation in Germany: Nora Krug's Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Victoria Aarons, Trinity University
Chapter 6: An Impossible Homecoming: Ruth Kluger's Austria
Sarah Painitz, Butler University
Chapter 7: Fractures and Refraction in Argentina: Prosthetic Memory and Edgardo Cozarinsky's Lejos de donde
Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota
Chapter 8: Anglicization and the Holocaust in Judith Kerr and Eva Tucker's Fiction
Joshua Lander, University of Glasgow
Chapter 9: Collective Disengagement: Canada's Nationa
About the author
Hilene S. Flanzbaum is the Allegra Stewart Chair of Modern Literature at Butler University.Hilene S. Flanzbaum is the Allegra Stewart Chair of Modern Literature at Butler University.Holli Levitsky is founder and director of the Jewish Studies Program and professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. Ranen Omer-Sherman is Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at University of Louisville, USA. He is the author or editor of six books including Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature (2002), Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert (2006), The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches (2008), Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture (2013), Imagining Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film (2015), and Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond (2023), as well as numerous essays on Jewish writers from Israel and North America. He also serves as co-editor of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.
