Table of Contents

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

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Leading scholars explore current and future directions in Holocaust Literature in this easy-to-use and authoritative research reference guide.

About the Author

Jenni Adams is Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her previous publications include Magic Realism in Holocaust Literature: Troping the Traumatic Real (2011).

Reviews

This is a superb, well-thought out and brilliantly constructed companion to this growing field: it will both stimulate further research and support the teaching of Holocaust Literature.
*Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK*

This timely volume is an invaluable and lucid guide to the complexities of a vital and varied field of study. It will provide inspiration both for those already engaged in work in this field and those who are new to it.
*Victoria Stewart, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature, School of English, University of Leicester, UK*

Drawing together leading figures in the field of Holocaust studies, this impressive and carefully balanced collection offers fresh perspectives on the literary representation of the Holocaust. The essays map out key areas of current debate, providing a valuable guide to the development of Holocaust studies, trauma studies, and memory studies in the twenty-first century.
*Anne Whitehead, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University, UK*

The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature assembles a stellar group of emerging and established critics and covers an impressively broad range of issues and texts. With an annotated bibliography, glossary, and outline of new directions in the field accompanying a series of accessible essays, this volume will be welcomed by students and scholars alike.
*Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization*

If we need any proof that 'Holocaust Literature' has arrived at a state of respected maturity as a genre sui generis, it is this companion, which eloquently and thoroughly provides sound and sometimes provocative reference and critical materials for scholar and general readers alike.
*David Scrase, Professor of German, Department of German and Russian, University of Vermont, USA*

The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature serves as a unique analytical literary resource for students and scholars alike and brings together the current state of academic criticism, research, and writing in the field. Recommended for graduate and undergraduate libraries, as well as a useful guide for college-level curriculum development in Holocaust studies.
*AJL Reviews*

Holocaust Literature is an important, provocative collection of essays by international senior and emerging scholars concerned with new directions in literary response to the Holocaust ... It interrogates accurate, embellished, and falsified testimonies; explores memory transmission of those distanced in time and place from the Holocaust; examines resistance to transmission prohibitions and taboos; and fosters comparison of the Holocaust and its representation with that of other genocides. An extensive annotated critical bibliography and glossary of major terms and concepts advance Holocaust literary studies. Highly recommended.
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