The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture

lt;p>Victoria Aarons is O.R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University, USA. She is the author or editor of 11 books, including The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (2015); The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow (2016); Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction (2016); Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory (co-authored with Alan Berger) (2017), The New Jewish American Literary Studies (2019), and Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory (2019).

Phyllis Lassner is Professor Emerita in The Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies and The Gender Studies Program at Northwestern University, USA.  Her publications include British Women Writers of World War II (1998), Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire, and Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust (1998). She co-edited the volumes Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Representing Jews, Jewishness, and Modern Culture (2008) and Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller (2010). Her most recent book is Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film (2017).

lt;p>CONTENTS

1          Introduction: Approaching the Holocaust in the 21^st Century

Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner

Part I       Memoir

2          Elie Wiesel's Quarrel with God

Alan L. Berger

3          Primo Levi's Last Lesson: A Reading of The Drowned and the Saved

Anthony C. Wexler

4          What We Learn, At Last: Recounting Sexuality in Women's Deferred Autobiographies and Testimonies

Sara R. Horowitz

Part II      Fiction

5          Ghetto in Flames: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Early Postwar Jewish Fiction Avinoam Patt

6          The Nazi Beast at the Warsaw Zoo: Animal Studies, the Holocaust, The Zookeeper's Wife, and See Under: Love

Naomi Sokoloff

7          When Facts Become Figures: Figurative Dynamics in Youth Holocaust Literature

Joanna Krongold

8          Jewish Boys on the Run: The Revision of Boyhood in Holocaust Fiction and Film

            Phyllis Lassner

9          "I sometimes thought I was listening to myself": Identity-Deliberation after the Holocaust in Chaim Grade's "My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner"

Megan V. Reynolds

10        "The Relatedness of the Unrelatable": The Holocaust as Trope in Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood

Paule Lévy

11        The Holocaust in Works by Two Yiddish Writers in Argentina: Simja Sneh and Israel Aszendorf

            Alan Astro

12        Edgar Hilsenrath's Novels: Der Nazi & der Friseur and Berlin... Endstation

Till Kinzel

13        Transit and Transfer: Between Germany and Israel in the Granddaughters' Generation

Ashley Passmore

14        Holocaust Memories and Polish Catholic Identity: Cultural Transmutations of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Rachel F. Brenner

15        Post-Soviet Migrant Memory of the Holocaust

16        Vasily Grossman and Anatoly Rybakov: Soviet Sources of Historical Memory of the Holocaust

Alexis Pogorelskin

17        Refractions of Holocaust Memory in Stanislaw Lem's Science Fiction

Richard Middleton-Kaplan

Part III     Poetry

18        Poetry of Witness and Poetry of Commentary: Responses to the Holocaust in Russian Verse

Marat Grinberg

 19       "At Last to a Condition of Dignity": Anthony Hecht's Holocaust Poetry

David Caplan

20        Wound Marks in the Air and the Shadows Within: A Poetic Examination of Dan Pagis, Paul Celan, and Nelly Sachs

Shellie McCullough

21        The Dark Side of Holocaust Era Poetry: Nazi Poetry Promoting Antisemitism and Genocide

Cary Nelson

Part IV     Film and Drama

22        Holocaust Drama Imagined and Re-Imagined: The Case of Charlotte Delbo's

            Who Will Carry the Word?

Holli Levitsky

23        Wresting Memory as We Wrestle with Holocaust Representation: Reading László Neme's Son of Saul

Gila Safran Naveh

24        Troubled Aesthetics: Jewish Bodies in Post-Holocaust Film

Jessica Lang

25        Screen Memories: Trauma, Repetition, and Survival in Sidney Lumet's The

            Pawnbroker

Sandor Goodhart

26        Haunted Dreams: The Legacy of the Holocaust in And Europe Will Be Stunned

Melissa Weininger

Part V      Graphic Culture

27        "Master Race": Graphic Storytelling in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Victoria Aarons

28        The Challenges of Translating Art Spiegelman's Maus

29        We Are a Long Way Past Maus: Responsible and Irresponsible Holocaust Representations in Graphic Comics and Sitcom Cartoons

Jeffrey Scott Demsky

30        Claustrophobic in the Gaps of Others: Affective Investments from the Queer Margins

Golan Moskowitz

31        Recrafting the Past: Graphic Novels, the Third Generation and Twenty-First Century Representations of the Holocaust

Claire Gorrara

 32       X-Men at Auschwitz? Superheroes, Nazis, and the Holocaust

Edward B. Westermann

33        An Iconic Image through the Lens of Ka-tzetnik: The Murder of the Mother and the Essence of Auschwitz

David Patterson

34        Photographing Survival: Survivor Photographs of, and at, Auschwitz

Tim Cole

Part VI     Historical & Cultural Narratives

35        A Reconsideration of Sexual Violence in German Colonial and Nazi Ideology and its Representation in Holocaust Texts

Elizabeth R. Baer

36        The Place of Holocaust Survivor Videotestimony: Navigating the Landmarks of First-Person Audio-Visual Representation

Oren Baruch Stier

37        Beckett's Holocaust

Ira Nadel

38        The Auschwitz Women's Camp: An Overview and Reconsideration

Sarah Cushman

39        Aryan Feminity: Identity in the Third Reich

Wendy Adele-Marie

40        Reconsidering Jewish Rage after the Holocaust

Margarete Myers Feinstein

41        Impossible Holocaust Metaphors: Shoes, Matter, Memory

Sharon B. Oster

42        From Holocaust Studies to Trauma Studies and Back Again

Hilene Flanzbaum

Contributors' Notes

Index