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Using and abusing the Holocaust / Lawrence L. Langer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: MWT11676046Series: Jewish literature and culturePublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, �2006Description: 1 online resource (xix, 165 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations, platesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253023513
  • 0253023513
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Using and abusing the Holocaust.DDC classification:
  • 940.53/18 22
LOC classification:
  • D804.195 .L357 2006eb
Other classification:
  • b 230.30.3
  • l 85.3
  • n 10.10
  • n 10.3
  • n 7
  • n 93
  • 8
  • 8,1
  • 8.
  • 8,1.
  • b 230.30.3.
  • l 85.3.
  • n 10.10.
  • n 10.3.
  • n 7.
  • n 93.
Online resources:
Contents:
The pursuit of death in Holocaust narrative -- Anne Frank revisited -- Life is not beautiful -- Fragments of memory : a myth of past time -- Wounded families in Holocaust discourse -- Memory and justice after the Holocaust and apartheid -- Witnessing atrocity : the testimonial evidence -- Moralizing and demoralizing the Holocaust -- Representing the Holocaust -- The book of Genesis in the art of Samuel Bak.
Review: "All of the essays in Using and Abusing the Holocaust consider Holocaust-related issues, but many of them are also concerned with a problem that affects consciousness in the modern era: how to go on living fruitfully amidst almost daily announcements of unnatural or violent death. Several examine reasons for the exaggerated importance still given to Anne Frank's Diary as a Holocaust narrative, for the uncritical acclaim awarded Binjamin Wilkomirski's fake memoir, Fragments, and for the different approaches to "justice" adopted following the Holocaust and the collapse of the apartheid regime in South Africa."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-160) and index.

The pursuit of death in Holocaust narrative -- Anne Frank revisited -- Life is not beautiful -- Fragments of memory : a myth of past time -- Wounded families in Holocaust discourse -- Memory and justice after the Holocaust and apartheid -- Witnessing atrocity : the testimonial evidence -- Moralizing and demoralizing the Holocaust -- Representing the Holocaust -- The book of Genesis in the art of Samuel Bak.

"All of the essays in Using and Abusing the Holocaust consider Holocaust-related issues, but many of them are also concerned with a problem that affects consciousness in the modern era: how to go on living fruitfully amidst almost daily announcements of unnatural or violent death. Several examine reasons for the exaggerated importance still given to Anne Frank's Diary as a Holocaust narrative, for the uncritical acclaim awarded Binjamin Wilkomirski's fake memoir, Fragments, and for the different approaches to "justice" adopted following the Holocaust and the collapse of the apartheid regime in South Africa."--Jacket.

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