Holocaust and hope : literature, testimony, media / Geoffrey Hartman ; edited by Kevis Goodman and Brian McGrath.
The text shows one of our preeminent critics grappling with a subject to which he had returned for decades: literary, cultural, political, and historiographical implications of the Holocaust and its aftermath in Europe and America. In his last planned book, Geoffrey Hartman confronts contradictions...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2026.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Lit z.
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| Summary: | The text shows one of our preeminent critics grappling with a subject to which he had returned for decades: literary, cultural, political, and historiographical implications of the Holocaust and its aftermath in Europe and America. In his last planned book, Geoffrey Hartman confronts contradictions that pose a challenge for our present and future. The passing of Holocaust survivors and their immediate families makes continued acts of witnessing more necessary, even as distance in time makes the identities and acts of future witnessing more complicated. In addition, the particular kinds of amplification that we may be accustomed to or expect from our contemporary media environment can call forth not an intensity of response but rather an inertia, an "unreality effect," that can come unexpectedly from the heightening of the real, or the hyperreality of too much, too fast, too strong. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliography and index. |
| Physical Description: | 234 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781531512200 1531512208 1531512216 9781531512217 |