Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Representations of the Holocaust and the end of me mory / Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer -- I. The epist emology of witness -- The Holocaust as vicarious past : Art Spiegelm an's Maus and the afterimages of history / James E. Young -- "The language of dollars" : Multilingualism and the claims of English in Ha sidic tales of the Holocaust / Alan Rosen -- A pedagogy of trauma (or a crisis of cynicism) : Teaching, writing, and the Holocaust / Janet Alsup -- The "erotics of Auschwitz" : Coming of age in The pai nted bird and Sophie's choice / Sharon Oster -- Maus and the epis temology of witness / Richard Glejzer -- II. Memory, authenticity , and the "Jewish question" -- Promiscuous reading : The problem of indentification and Anne Frank's Diary / Susan David Bernstein -- Humboldt's gift and Jewish American self-fashioning "after Auschwit z" / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy -- Mormon literature and the irreduci ble other : Writing the unspeakable in Holocaust literature / Reinho ld Hill -- Beyond the question of authenticity : Witness and testimo ny in the Fragments controversy / Michael Bernard-Donals -- III. Ethical imperative -- Maurice Blanchot : Fighting spirit / Geoffr ey Hartman -- Shoah and the origins of teaching / David Metzger - - Teaching (after) Auschwitz : Pedagogy between redemption and subli mity / Michael Bernard-Donls and Richard Glejzer -- Approaching l imit events : siting Agamben / Dominick LaCapra.

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