"Narratives of large-scale historical horror and trauma cross a terrible boundary in representation. What forms are adequate to such experience? What are the forms that such narratives actually take? Fridman is fascinated by the boundary that separates the representable from the…
"Polish Literature and Genocide presents the attitude of national literature to the twentieth-century acts of genocide. This volume examines the reflection of the Holocaust and the massacre in Srebrenica in a rich, detailed, and comprehensive way, expanding the existing research…
A collection of essays written between 1973-90. Pt. 1 (pp. 1-123), "A Holocaust Mentality, " deals mainly with the treatment of the Holocaust and of Jewish identity in American Jewish literature, and the significance of the Holocaust in the development of Rosen's thought and wri…
"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 deat…
