Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture

  • Book
  • © 2010

Overview

Authors:
  1. Richard Crownshaw

    1. Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Theory after Memory

    • Richard Crownshaw
    Pages 1-40

  3. On Reading Sebald: The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz

    • Richard Crownshaw
    Pages 41-81

  4. Holocaust Memory and the Air War: W. G. Sebald’s Luftkrieg und Literatur (‘Air War and Literature: Zürich Lectures’)

    • Richard Crownshaw
    Pages 82-116

  5. Grey Zones of Memory?

    • Richard Crownshaw
    Pages 117-144

  6. Reading the Perpetrator: Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser (The Reader) and Die Heimkehr (Homecoming)

    • Richard Crownshaw
    Pages 145-181

  7. Countermonumental Memory

    • Richard Crownshaw
    Pages 182-204

  8. Photography and Memory in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    • Richard Crownshaw
    Pages 205-238

  9. Conclusion

    • Richard Crownshaw
    Pages 239-246

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 247-297
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This bold intervention into the debate over the memory and 'post-memory' of the Holocaust both scrutinizes recent academic theories of post-Holocaust trauma and provides a new reading of literary and architectural memory texts related to the Holocaust.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

    Richard Crownshaw

About the author

RICHARD CROWNSHAW is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His teaching and research interests comprise nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century American literature, Holocaust studies, and cultural memory studies. He has published numerous essays on Holocaust-related literature and is co-editor of The Future of Memory.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation