Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature

Alan L. Berger is the Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies and director of the Center for the Study of Values and Violence After Auschwitz at Florida Atlantic University.Lucas F.W. Wilson is the Justice, Equity, and Transformation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary.

• Chapter 1. Third-Generation Holocaust Inheritance in Two Graphic Narratives: A Layering of Histories and LegaciesVictoria AaronsChapter 2. “Things will never be alright again”: Third Generation German Jewish Literature and the Questions of Remembrance, Reconciliation, and RevengeLuisa BankiChapter 3. Julie Orringer’s The Flight Portfolio: A New Turn in Holocaust RepresentationAlan L. BergerChapter 4. Categories of Catastrophe: Third-Generation Reckoning in Susanne Fritz’s Becoming a Child of WarKatra ByramChapter 5. The “Tumor of Memory” in The Origin of ViolenceNathalie Debrauwere-MillerChapter 6.: Numbers and Portraits: Reframing Auschwitz Tattoos in Numbered (2012)Elke HecknerChapter 7. Representations of Identity and the Holocaust Archive in Third-Generation Graphic Narrative: Nora Krug’s Belonging: A German Reckons with History and HomeDana MihailescuChapter 8. Writing Inherited Stories: A Study of Representational Anxiety in Australian Third-Generation Holocaust LiteratureT

Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature is a much needed, penetrating analysis of a growing body of literature. Drawing upon the insights of an all-star array of scholars, it spans a variety of literary works from a variety of genres and geographical origins. It is an indispensable resource for students and scholars alike. In this age of the fading memory of the Holocaust, this important volume is a clarion call to memory and testimony. It will transform its reader into witnesses.