Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation
Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation
by Michael Rothberg
University of Minnesota Press, 2000 Paper: 978-0-8166-3459-0 | Cloth: 978-0-8166-3458-3 Library of Congress Classification D804.348.R68 2000 Dewey Decimal Classification 940.5318072
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Demands of Holocaust Representation
Part I
MODERNISM “AFTER AUSCHWITZ”
1.
After Adorno: Culture in the Wake of Catastrophe
2.
Before Auschwitz: Maurice Blanchot, From Now On
Part II
REALISM IN “THE CONCENTRATIONARY UNIVERSE”
3.
“The Barbed Wire of the Postwar World”: Ruth Klüger's Traumatic Realism
4.
Unbearable Witness: Charlotte Delbo's Traumatic Timescapes
Part III
POSTMODERNISM, OR “THE YEAR OF THE HOLOCAUST”
5.
Reading Jewish: Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, and Holocaust Postmemory
6.
“Touch an Event to Begin”: Americanizing the Holocaust
Conclusion.
After the “Final Solution”: From the “Jewish Question” to Jewish Questioning