The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of Holocaust writing. At its centre is a series of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars within the field: these address genre-specific issues such as the question of biographical and historical truth in Holocaust testimony, as well as broader topics including the politics of Holocaust representation and the validity of comparative approaches to the Holocaust in literature and criticism. The volume includes a substantial section detailing new and emergent trends within the literary study of the Holocaust, a concise glossary of major critical terminology, and an annotated bibliography of relevant research material.
Featuring original essays by: Victoria Aarons, Jenni Adams, Michael Bernard-Donals, Matthew Boswell, Stef Craps, Richard Crownshaw, Brett Ashley Kaplan and Fernando Herrero-Matoses, Adrienne Kertzer, Erin McGlothlin, David Miller, and Sue Vice.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Current research
1. A Genre of Rupture: The Literary Language of the Holocaust
Victoria Aarons
2. Questions of Truth in Holocaust Memory and Testimony
Sue Vice
3. After Epic: Adorno's Scream and the Shadows of Lyric
David Miller
4. Relationships to Realism in Post-Holocaust Fiction: Conflicted Realism and the Counterfactual Historical Novel
Jenni Adams
5. Theory and the Ethics of Holocaust Representation
Michael Bernard-Donals
6. 'Don't you know anything?' Childhood and the Holocaust
Adrienne Kertzer
7. Holocaust Postmemory: W. G. Sebald and Gerhard Richter
Brett Ashley Kaplan and Fernando Herrero-Matoses
8. Narrative Perspective and the Holocaust Perpetrator: Edgar Hilsenrath's The Nazi and the Barber and Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones
Erin McGlothlin
9. The Holocaust and the Taboo
Matthew Boswell
10. Holocaust Literature: Comparative Approaches
Stef Craps
11. Depoliticizing and Repoliticizing Holocaust Memory
Richard Crownshaw
New Directions in Holocaust Literary Studies
Annotated bibliography
Glossary of Major Terms and Concepts
Index
