"The supernatural and extraterrestrial are rich and complex spaces with which to examine important Holocaust themes - trauma, guilt, grief, ideological fervor and perversion, industrialized killing, and the dangerous afterlife of Nazism after World War II. Planet Auschwitz explo…
This book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust fiction. Using Gillian Roses theory of Holocaust piety, it argues that, rather than enhancing our understanding of the Holocaust, contemporary fiction has instead become overly focused on gratuitous representations…
"Claude Lanzmann's 1985 magnum opus Shoah is a canonical documentary on the Holocaust--and in film history. Over twelve years, Lanzmann gathered 230 hours of interviews with survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators, which he condensed into a nine-and-a-half-hour film. The unused f…
The Americanization of the Holocaust
Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Deb…
Stresses the difference between witnessing (seeing) and testifying (telling) in regard to representing the Holocaust and its inescapable limitations. Referring to history, philosophy, theology, and literary and critical theory, notes the necessity of trying, despite the element …
