Shedding Light on the Darkness

Nancy A. Lauckner teaches and publishes on the Holocaust and its reflection in German, in particular East German, literature. She is Associate Professor of German in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• Chapter 1. The Holocaust through Literature and FilmD. ScraseChapter 2. The Well-Utilized SurvivorS. E. Cernyak-SpatzChapter 3. Victims and Perpetrators: The Many Voices of the HolocaustT. FreemanChapter 4. Designing Within and Around Limits: The Holocaust, Madonna, and MeL. FeldmanChapter 5. The Difficulty of Breaking the Silence: Teaching the Holocaust in a Program of German Literature and CultureD. C. G. LorenzChapter 6. Four Genres and One Question: Why?S. R. CerfChapter 7. The Holocaust and Resistance in German LiteratureG. Brude-FirnauChapter 8. Inserting a Short Course on the Holocaust into German Offerings at a Small Liberal Arts CollegeN. M. DeckerChapter 9. Teaching the Shoah in Context: A Course on Jewish German RelationsK. RemmlerChapter 10. German Myths and Jewish Traumas: Teaching Postwar Cultural History 1945-1995F. StrzelczykChapter 11. Witness Grete Weil: An Intensive Summer Graduate SeminarL. NussbaumChapter 12. A Graduate Seminar on the Holocaust and the Third Reich as Reflected in Postwar German LiteratureN. A. LaucknerChapter 13. The Nazi Period, the Holocaust, and German-Jewish Issues as Integral Subjects in a German Language CourseK. DoerrChapter 14. The Holocaust in an Introductory German Literature Course: Problematic Responses as a Catalyst for Curricular ChangeM. JokiniemiChapter 15. Beyond Cultural PedagogyW. C. DonahueChapter 16. The Teaching (and Not Teaching) of the DisasterL. MorrisNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

"Teaching the Holocaust has become and urgent issue in liberal arts education ... [and] the editors of [this book] assumed this responsibility with dedication, steadfastness, and courage ... The construciton of the book offers a variety of models useful to instructors from all fields of humanities and social sciences ... The essays [are] fascinating. The authors share clearly and succintly ... and with remarkable objectivity and openess, their experiences ... The editors should be commended for the clear and comprehensible introduction ... as well as the meticulous bibliographies ... This book fulfills the promise in its title: it is a guide that shows a way to understand and communicate better the darkness of the Shoah."  · Monatshefte"The volumes proves an immensely useful overview of different means and approaches, different assumptions and conclusions, from a broad range of highly articulate and qualified scholars ... all pieces are fully and impeccably documented."  · Scott Denham