Witnessing the disaster essays on repr esentation and the Holocaust / [electronic resource] : edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer. - Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003. - vi, 317 p. ; 24 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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


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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature-- Study and teaching.