Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era

Ernst van Alphen, Leiden University, NetherlandsJacob Lund, Aarhus University, DenmarkJames E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USAImke Girßmann, University of Oldenburg, GermanyTracy Jean Rosenberg, Goethe University, GermanyTim Cole, University of Bristol, UKJan Borowicz, University of Warsaw, PolandErica Lehrer, Concordia University, CanadaMagdalena Waligórska, Free University, Berlin, GermanyCeri Eldin, Uppsala University, SwedenHampus Östh Gustafsson, Uppsala University, SwedenElizabeth Ward, University of Leeds, UKIngrid Lewis, Dublin City University, IrelandChristine Gundermann, University of Cologne, GermanyChristian Karner, University of Nottingham, UKKristin Wagrell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKLarissa Allwork, University of Northampton, UK

• 1. Introduction: Memory and Imagination in the Post-witness Era; Diana I. Popescu PART I: REVISITING ARTISTIC PRACTICES OF HOLOCAUST COMMEMORATION 2. List Mania in Holocaust Commemoration; Ernst van Alphen 3. Acts of Remembering in the Work of Esther Shalev-Gerz: From Embodied to Mediated Memory; Jacob Lund 4. Countermonuments as Spaces for Deep Memory; James E. Young 5. Sites that Matter: Current Developments of Urban Holocaust Commemoration in Berlin and Munich; Imke Girssmann 6. Contemporary Holocaust Memorials in Berlin: On the Borders of Sacred and Profane; Tracy Jean Rosenberg PART II: SITES OF STRUGGLE WITH HAUNTING PASTS 7. Holocaust Tourism: The Strange yet Familiar/the Familiar yet Strange; Tim Cole 8. To Go or Not to Go? Reflections on the Iconic Status of Auschwitz, its Increasing Distance and Prevailing Urgency; Tanja Schult 9. Holocaust Zombies: Mourning and Memory in Polish Contemporary Culture; Jan Borowicz 10. 'A Picnic Underpinned with Unease': Spring in Warsaw and New Genre Polish-Jewish Memory Work; Erica Lehrer and Magdalena Waligorska 11. The Limits of Forgiveness and Postmodern Art; Ceri Eldin PART III: RETHINKING REPRESENTATION IN LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE 12. Auschwitz, Adorno and the Ambivalence of Representation: The Holocaust as a Point of Reference in Contemporary Literature; Hampus Osth Gustafsson 13. Questions of Re(Presentation) in Uwe Boll's Auschwitz (2011); Elizabeth Ward 14. 'Ordinary' Women as Perpetrators in European Holocaust Films; Ingrid Lewis 15 Real Imagination? Holocaust Comics in Europe; Christine Gundermann PART IV: MEMORY POLITICS IN POST-2000 (TRANS)NATIONAL CONTEXTS 16. Austria's Post-Holocaust Jewish Community: A Subaltern Counterpublic between the Ethics and Morality of Memory; Christian Karner 17. Cosmopolitan Memory in a National Context: The Case of the 'Living History Forum'; Kristin Wagrell 18. Holocaust Remembrance as 'Civil Religion'? The Case of the Stockholm Declaration (2000); Larissa Allwork