Using and abusing the Holocaust

Using and abusing the Holocaust

by Langer, Lawrence L.

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"All of the essays in Using and Abusing the Holocaust consider Holocaust-related issues, but many of them are also concerned with a problem that affects consciousness in the modern era: how to go on living fruitfully amidst almost daily announcements of unnatural or violent death. Several examine reasons for the exaggerated importance still given to Anne Frank's Diary as a Holocaust narrative, for the uncritical acclaim awarded Binjamin Wilkomirski's fake memoir, Fragments, and for the differen…

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  • Full title :Using and abusing the Holocaust / Lawrence L. Langer.

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"All of the essays in Using and Abusing the Holocaust consider Holocaust-related issues, but many of them are also concerned with a problem that affects consciousness in the modern era: how to go on living fruitfully amidst almost daily announcements of unnatural or violent death. Several examine reasons for the exaggerated importance still given to Anne Frank's Diary as a Holocaust narrative, for the uncritical acclaim awarded Binjamin Wilkomirski's fake memoir, Fragments, and for the different approaches to "justice" adopted following the Holocaust and the collapse of the apartheid regime in South Africa."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2006.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xix, 165 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : color illustrations, plates ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0253347459, 9780253347459
  • oclc:ocm62290477
  • LC Classification:D804.195
  • Dewey Decimal:940.53/18

Table of Contents

The pursuit of death in Holocaust narrative -- Anne Frank revisited -- Life is not beautiful -- Fragments of memory : a myth of past time -- Wounded families in Holocaust discourse -- Memory and justice after the Holocaust and apartheid -- Witnessing atrocity : the testimonial evidence -- Moralizing and demoralizing the Holocaust -- Representing the Holocaust -- The book of Genesis in the art of Samuel Bak.

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Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung Criticism, interpretation, etc Holocaust survivors -- Biography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influe… Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Person… Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Person… Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in liter… Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Influence Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Récits personn… Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérat… Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Judenvernichtung Judenvernichtung (Motiv) Literatur Personal Narrative Personal narratives Récits personnels Rezeption Survivants de l'Holocauste -- Biographi… Vergangenheitsbewältigung

Writers

Langer, Lawrence L.

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