The Holocaust

Neil Levi, Michael Rothberg

This book is the first anthology to address the relationship between the events of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable volume. This agenda-setting reader brings together both classic and new writings to demonstrate how concerns arising from the Nazi genocide shaped contemporary literary and cultural theory. Wide in its thematic scope, it covers such vital questions as: Authenticity and experience; Memory and trauma; Historiography and the philosophy of history; Fascism and Nazi anti-Semitism; Representation and identity formation; Race, gender, and genocide; Implications of the Holocaust for theories of the unconscious, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. The readings, which are fully contextualized by a general introduction, section introductions, and bibliographical notes, represent the work...

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