Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Holocaust Traumata and Their Generational Legacies and Emanations
	Generations: Structural Frameworks
	The Dialogical Nature of (Collective) Trauma
	Trauma Theory: Concepts, Implications, Outlooks
	Moving Trauma Theory into the Generation of Postmemory
	Living in the Aftermath: Forms of Trauma
	Insterstices between Individual and Cultural Trauma
	Trauma as Connective Force
	Structure of the Book
1 Narrating the Inexpressible: Wiesel’s Night as a Testimonial Model
	God on the Gallows: Doublings of Faith
	Trauma in the Mirror: Identities in the Face of Trauma
	Paradigmatic Accuser: Connecting Audiences
	Witness in Search of Meaning and Silence
	Surviving and Remembering: Representing Trauma in the Present
2 The Truth of Fiction in Louis Begley’s Wartime Lies
	Narrated Identities: Fictionalization of the Self and Its Actual Facts
	Negotiating Fact and Fiction in Meaningful Representations for an Audience
	The Creation of Meaning and Its Passing Ownership
	(R/De-)Construction of Narrative and Real Identity
	Asserting Control by Narrative Means
3 Rescuing One’s Memory from Past Traumata: Cheryl Pearl Sucher’s the Rescue of Memory
	Past and Present: Making a Stance of One’s Own
	Photographs and Other Stories: Past Negatives and Healing Trauma
	Generational Connections: Approaching First- and Second-Generation Trauma
	First-Hand Trauma in Second-Generation Writing
	Emancipation through Embedding: Establishing a Meaningful Presence of the Past
	Meaningful Incorporation of Past Trauma into Present Narratives
4 Encaustic Memories: Second-Generation Assertions in Rosenbaum’s Second Hand Smoke
	Traumatic Impositions: Connecting First- and Second- Generation Trauma
	Encountering the Ghosts: Generational Connections to the Past
	Close Contact: Breaking Down Past and Present Distinctions
	Imposing Trauma: Between Filial Rage and Generational Forgiveness
	Individual and Cultural Authorship over Trauma Stories
	Damaged Goods: Navigating Parental Trauma and One’s Own
	Exclusion from and Inclusion into Parental Narratives
	Remembering, Letting Go, and Incorporating the Past into the Present
	Progressive and Tragic Narrative Outlook in Overcoming Trauma
5 Connecting Worlds: Narrative Networks in Horn’s The World to Come
	Generational Temporal Connections
	Choosing Narrative, Choosing Life
	Linguistic Connections to Translated Pasts
	Storied Bridges: Connecting Present, Past, and Future Worlds
	Meaningful Narratives: Paper Bridges between (Past) Trauma and (Present) Meanings
	Connecting Worlds: People as Stories
	Creating a Future from the Past
	Stories as Narrative Intersections between Generations
6 When Memory Fails: Fiction as History in Everything is Illuminated
	Narrative Trajectories: Limitations of Fictional Meaning Creation
	Generational Positions: Midrashic Engagements and Circular Historicity
	(Re)constructing the Past: Interrelations between the Place and Its Stories
	Language and Silence: Connective Phantasmagorias of Meaning
	Workable Terminologies: Integrating Past-Tensed Facts
	Fictional Records: Tracking Meanings between the Past and the Present
	Narrative Realities: Permeating Events and Stories
	Imaginative Representation: Memory’s Narrative Dependencies
	Generational Catharsis in Dyadic, Generational Encounters
Conclusion: The Future of Trauma
Index