Renegotiating Postmemory by Maria Roca-Lizarazu
With the disappearance of the eyewitness generation and the globalization of Holocaust memory, this book interrogates key concepts in Holocaust and trauma studies through an assessment of contemporary German-language Jewish authors. In the shifting media landscape of the twenty-first century, the second and third generations of German-language Jewish authors are grappling with the disappearance of the eyewitness generation and the hyper-mediation and globalization of Holocaust memory. Benjamin Stein, Maxim Biller, Vladmir Vertlib, and Eva Menasse each experiment with new approaches towards Holocaust representation and the Nazi past. This book investigates major shifts in Holocaust memory since the turn of the millennium, and argues that the works of these authors call for a much-needed reassessment of key concepts and terms in Holocaust discourse such as authenticity, empathy, normalization, representation, traumatic unspeakability, and postmemory. Drawing on current research in media, memory, cultural, and literary studies, Maria Roca Lizarazu develops a fresh approach which challenges the dominant focus on traumatic unspeakability by engaging with the culturally mediated travels of transgenerational and transnational contemporary Holocaust memory. Roca Lizarazu pays special attention to ethical and aesthetic challenges of contemporary Holocaust memory and how these are addressed in the medium of contemporary German-language literature. This book offers a critical new perspective on the central paradigms informing recent Holocaust and trauma studies scholarship and, in doing so, provides novel insights into a new generational approach towards Holocaust remembrance and representation. MARIA ROCA LIZARAZU is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Maria Roca Lizarazu's Renegotiating Postmemory is impressive in the breadth of its theoretical engagement with current post-Holocaust memory and media discourses-- Charlotte Schallié * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *
MARIA ROCA LIZARAZU is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781640140455 |
| ISBN 10 | 164014045X |
| Title | Renegotiating Postmemory |
| Author | Maria Roca-Lizarazu |
| Series | Dialogue And Disjunction: Studies In Jewish German Literature Culture And Thought Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Camden House |
| Year published | 2020-03-16 |
| Number of pages | 236 |
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