The broken voice : reading post-Holocaust literature /

Which writer today is not a writer of the Holocaust?' asked the late Imre Kertesz, Hungarian survivor and novelist, in his Nobel acceptance speech: 'one does not have to choose the Holocaust as one's subject to detect the broken voice that has dominated modern European art for decades...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eaglestone, Robert, 1968- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Between Meaning and Truth; 1: The Public Secret; `Which of us did you murder?;́ Defining The Public Secret; The Public Secret In Never Let Me Go; The Impact of the Public Secret; Conclusion; 2: Evil; The Reality of the Nightmare: Arendt On Evil; Perpetrator Testimony; Perpetrator Fiction; Conclusion; 3: Stasis; Introduction; Twenty Minutes of Fateless; Submerging/Stoicism; The Paralyzing Horror of the Tralfamadorian Quincunx; Interlocking Spaces; Conclusion; 4: Disorientalism; Introduction; Obstacles to Reading Heart Of Darkness as a text about Colonial Genocide; `Aggravated Murder on A Great Scale:́ Genocide on The Congo; Marlowś and Conradś Complicity; Secrets and Lies; Conclusion; 5: Disorientalism Today; Introduction; African trauma literature?; Atrocity in Rwanda and Sudan; Authorship; Generic Characteristics; Conclusion; 6: Post-Holocaust Kitsch; Introduction; Peeping at Monsters in A Glass Case; How the holocaust became a fable; Conclusion; 7: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.