Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives : Memory in Memoir and Fiction.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Special Kind of Kinship -- 2 Memory's Afterimage -- 3 A Visible Bridge -- 4 Storytelling, Photography, and Mourning in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- 5 Life After Death -- 6 The "Generation without Grandparents" -- 7 Avatars of Third-Generation Holocaust Narrative in French and Spanish -- 8 Measure for Measure -- 9 Against Generational Thinking in Holocaust Studies -- 10 Simon and Mania -- Index -- Contributors.
This collection introduces the reader to third-generation Holocaust narratives, exploring the unique perspective of third-generation writers and demonstrating the ways in which Holocaust memory and trauma extend into the future.