Since the end of World War II we have witnessed countless artistic
responses to the Holocaust, yet we remain unable to adequately
address the atrocities. While Theodor Adorno later rescinded his
comments on the barbaric nature of writing poetry after Auschwitz,
The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to
Trauma begins with the possibility that he was right-that his
admonition against poetry warns against employing representational
modes that transgress the boundaries of the ethical when it comes
to the Holocaust. There is a language, other than the language of
representation, with which we might speak authentically about such
atrocities. This study explores what it means for the world of
literature to renounce the language of representation and retain
the language of witness. Drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas,
Maurice Blanchot, Geoffrey Hartman, and others the book focuses on
the increasing tendency of contemporary writers to rely on
non-representational approaches to storytelling in the context of
trauma. This tendency is named the "midrashic impulse" given its
similarity to ancient rabbinic approaches to the silences of the
Hebrew bible through the creation of Midrash.
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