German History, Middle Eastern & Arabic Literature, General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism, Jewish History
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Overview
The first multidisciplinary study of its kind, Breaking Crystal examines how members of the generation after the Holocaust in Israel and the United States confront through their own imaginations a traumatic event they have not directly experienced. Among the questions this groundbreaking work raises are: Whose memory is it? What will the collective memory of the Holocaust be in the twenty-first century, after the last survivors have given testimony? How in the aftermath of the Holocaust do we read and write literature and history? How is the memory inscribed in film and art? Is the appropriation of the Holocaust to political agendas a desecration of the six million Jews? What will the children of survivors pass on to the next generation?Book Details
Published
November 1, 1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pages
392
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780252066566