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After Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust
studiesùthe intersection of memory and ethics in artistic
expression, particularly within literature.As experts in the study
of literature and culture, the scholars in this collection examine
the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and
reveal how writersùwhether they write as witnesses to the
Holocaust or at an imaginative distance from the Nazi
genocideùarticulate the shadowy borderline between fact and
fiction, between event and expression, and between the condition of
life endured in atrocity and the hope of a meaningful existence.
What imaginative literature brings to the study of the Holocaust is
an ability to test the limits of language and its conventions.
After Representation? moves beyond the suspicion of representation
and explores the changing meaning of the Holocaust for different
generations, audiences, and contexts.
The essays in the tenth volume of Lessons and Legacies offer a
sense of the issues that run through current thinking about the
Holocaust and ideas about the different ways we engage with a broad
range of sources. New sources ranging from traditional archival
finds to microhistories accessible via newer technology infuse
Holocaust research. At the same time, the fields of Holocaust
research and Jewish studies have an increasing impact upon other
disciplines. Overall, the editor and writers find that the
integration of insights, methodologies, critiques, and questions
from psychology, literary studies, visual arts, and other fields
with those of history, political science, and other social sciences
sharpens the tools of analysis. The essays in this volume testify
to the evolution of the field of Holocaust studies and also
indicate a future direction.|The essays in the tenth volume of
Lessons and Legacies offer a sense of the issues that run through
current thinking about the Holocaust and ideas about the different
ways we engage with a broad range of sources. New sources ranging
from traditional archival finds to microhistories accessible via
newer technology infuse Holocaust research. At the same time, the
fields of Holocaust research and Jewish studies have an increasing
impact upon other disciplines. Overall, the editor and writers find
that the integration of insights, methodologies, critiques, and
questions from psychology, literary studies, visual arts, and other
fields with those of history, political science, and other social
sciences sharpens the tools of analysis. The essays in this volume
testify to the evolution of the field of Holocaust studies and also
indicate a future direction.
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