Using and abusing the Holocaust
By: Lawrence L. Langer.
Series: Jewish literature and culture
Publisher: Indiana UniversitY Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Holocaust survivors -- Biography -- History and criticism
Description: "All of the essays in Using and Abusing the Holocaust consider Holocaust-related issues, but many of them are also concerned with a problem that affects consciousness in the modern era: how to go on living fruitfully amidst almost daily announcements of unnatural or violent death. Several examine reasons for the exaggerated importance still given to Anne Frank's Diary as a Holocaust narrative, for the uncritical acclaim awarded Binjamin Wilkomirski's fake memoir, Fragments, and for the different approaches to "justice" adopted following the Holocaust and the collapse of the apartheid regime in South Africa."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The pursuit of death in Holocaust narrative; title: Anne Frank revisited; title: Life is not beautiful; title: Fragments of memory : a myth of past time; title: Wounded families in Holocaust discourse; title: Memory and justice after the Holocaust and apartheid; title: Witnessing atrocity : the testimonial evidence; title: Moralizing and demoralizing the Holocaust; title: Representing the Holocaust; title: The book of Genesis in the art of Samuel Bak.