The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature

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).

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