Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature

Jenni Adams is Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her previous publications include Magic Realism in Holocaust Literature: Troping the Traumatic Real (2011).

This is a superb, well-thought out and brilliantly constructed companion to this growing field: it will both stimulate further research and support the teaching of Holocaust Literature.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction Current research 1. A Genre of Rupture: The Literary Language of the HolocaustVictoria Aarons 2. Questions of Truth in Holocaust Memory and TestimonySue Vice 3. After Epic: Adorno’s Scream and the Shadows of LyricDavid Miller4. Relationships to Realism in Post-Holocaust Fiction: Conflicted Realism and the Counterfactual Historical NovelJenni Adams 5. Theory and the Ethics of Holocaust RepresentationMichael Bernard-Donals6. ‘Don’t you know anything?’ Childhood and the HolocaustAdrienne Kertzer7. Holocaust Postmemory: W. G. Sebald and Gerhard RichterBrett Ashley Kaplan and Fernando Herrero-Matoses8. Narrative Perspective and the Holocaust Perpetrator: Edgar Hilsenrath’s The Nazi and the Barber and Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly OnesErin McGlothlin9. The Holocaust and the TabooMatthew Boswell10. Holocaust Literature: Comparative ApproachesStef Craps11. Depoliticizing and Repoliticizing Holocaust MemoryRichard CrownshawNew Directions in Holocaust Literary Studies Annotated bibliography Glossary of Major Terms and Concepts Index