The Holocaust and the postmodern

The Holocaust and the postmodern / Robert Eaglestone.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eaglestone, Robert, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • I: Reading and the holocaust
  • 'Not read and consumed in the same way as other books': identification and the genre of testimony
  • Traces of experience: the texts of testimony
  • 'Faithful and doubtful, near and far': memory, postmemory, and identity
  • Holocaust reading: memory and identification in Holocaust fiction, 1990-2003
  • II: Holocaust metahistories
  • Against historicism: history, memory, and truth
  • 'Are footnotes less barbaric?': history, memory, and the truth of the Holocaust in the work of Saul Friedländer
  • 'What constitutes a historical explanation": metahistory and the limits of historical explanation in the Goldhagen/Browning controversy
  • The metahistory of denial: the Irving/Lipstady libel case and Holocaust denial
  • Inexhaustible meaning, inextinguishable voices: Levinas and the Holocaust
  • Cinders of philosophy, philosophy of cinders: Derrida and the trace of the Holocaust
  • The limits of understanding: perpetrator philosophy and philosophical histories
  • The postmodern, the Holocaust, and the limits of the human.

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