Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-308) and index.
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- The Holocaust in the Stories of Elie Wiesel / Thomas A. Idinopulos -- The Problematics of Holocaust Literature / Alvin H. Rosenfeld -- Tragedy and the Holocaust / Robert Skloot -- Holocaust Documentary Fiction: Novelist as Eyewitness / James E. Young -- Holocaust and Autobiography: Wiesel, Friedlander, Pisar / Joseph Sungolowsky -- The Holocaust / Deborah E. Lipstadt -- Primo Levi and the Language of Witness / Michael Tager -- The Utopian Space of a Nightmare: The Diary of Anne Frank / Barbara Chiarello -- The Literature of Auschwitz / Lawrence L. Langer -- Comedic Distance in Holocaust Literature / Mark Cory -- Public Memory and its Discontents / Geoffrey H. Hartman -- Two Holocaust Voices: Cynthia Ozick and Art Spiegelman / Lawrence L. Langer -- The Holocaust and Literary Studies / Jeffrey M. Peck -- Rafael Seligmann's Rubinsteins Versteigerung: The German-Jewish Family Novel before and after the Holocaust / Ritchie Robertson -- Memorizing Memory / Amy Hungerford -- Chronology -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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From the greatest tragedy of the 20th century rose a generation of writers determined to tell their stories and carry on the legacy of those who perished. This title provides a critical perspective on the works that captured the somber period in Western history.