The first anthology to address the relationship between the events
of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary
literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable
volume.This agenda-setting reader brings together both classic and
new writings to demonstrate how concerns arising from the Nazi
genocide shaped contemporary literary and cultural theory. Wide in
its thematic scope, it covers such vital questions as: -
Authenticity and experience - Memory and trauma - Historiography
and the philosophy of history - Fascism and Nazi anti-Semitism -
Representation and identity formation - Race, gender, and genocide
- Implications of the Holocaust for theories of the unconscious,
ethics, politics, and aesthetics The readings, which are fully
contextualized by a general introduction, section introductions,
and bibliographical notes, represent the work of many influential
writers and theorists, including Theodor Adorno, Giorgio Agamben,
Hannah Arendt, Jean Baudrillard, Zygmunt Bauman, Walter Benjamin,
Cathy Caruth, Jacques Derrida, Shoshana Felman, Saul Friedlander,
Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Langer, Emmanuel Levinas, Primo Levi,
Jean-Francois Lyotard, Hayden White, and James E. Young. This
multidisciplinary anthology will be welcomed by students and
scholars of the Holocaust.
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