Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Narrative and the Consequences of InterpretationI. Interpreting Literary Testimony1. On Rereading Holocaust Diaries and Memoirs2. From Witness to Legend: Tales of the Holocaust3. Holocaust Documentary Fiction: Novelist as Eyewitness4. Documentary Theater, Ideology, and the Rhetoric of FaceII. Figuring and Refiguring the Holocaust: Interpreting Holocaust Metaphor5. Names of the Holocaust: Meaning and Consequences6. The Holocaust Becomes an Archetype7. The Holocaust Confessions of Sylvia Plath8. When Soldier-Poets Remember the Holocaust: Antiwar Poetry in IsraelIII. Texts of the Holocaust: A Narrative CritiqueIntroduction9. Holocaust Video and Cinemagraphic Testimony: Documenting the Witness10. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and MeaningConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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