Trauma & Memory : The Holocaust in Contemporary Culture (Paperback)

Part I: Introduction

Introduction: the Holocaust in Contemporary Culture

1. ‘To tell the story’: cultural trauma and holocaust metanarrative

2. No laughing matter: humor and the Holocaust in Woody Allen, Shalom Auslander, and Howard Jacobson

3. From silence to testimony: performing trauma and postmemory in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated

4. Whose trauma is it? A trauma-theoretical reading of The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

5. ‘I think I’m beginning to understand. What I’m writing is an infranovel’: Laurent Binet, HHhH and the problem of ‘writing

history’

6. ‘Beyond words’: representing the ‘Holocaust by bullets’

7. Still struggling with German history: W.G. Sebald, Gunter Demnig and activist memory workers in Berlin today

8. Remembering the ‘unwanted’ victims: initiatives to memorialize the National Socialist euthanasia program in Germany

9. Figuring the Grey Zone: the Auschwitz Sonderkommando in contemporary culture

10. Instagram and Auschwitz: a critical assessment of the impact social media has on Holocaust representation

11. Encountering Auschwitz: touring the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Afterword: Conclusion