Trauma & memory : the Holocaust in contemporary culture

Part I: Introduction: The Holocaust in contemporary culture / Christine Berberich. - 'To tell the story' : cultural trauma and Holocaust metanarrative / Anna Clare Hunter. - Part II: New trends in Holocaust fiction. - No laughing matter : humor and the Holocaust in Woody Allen, Shalom Auslander, and Howard Jacobson / Christopher Madden. - From silence to testimony : performing trauma and postmemory in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated / Audrey Bardizbanian. - Whose trauma is in? : a trauma-theoretical reading of The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak / Zusana Buráková. - 'I think I'm beginning to understand. What I'm writing is an infranovel : Laurent Binet, HHhH and the problem of 'writing history' / Christine Berberich. - 'Beyond words' : representing the 'Holocaust by bullets' / Sue Vice. - Still struggling with German history : W.G. Sebald, Gunter Demnig and activist memory workers in Berlin today / Kirsten Grimstad. - Part III: The Holocaust in contemporary culture. - Remembering the 'unwanted' victims : initiatives to memorialize the National Socialist euthanasia program in Germany / Caroline Pearce. - Figuring the Grey Zone : the Auschwitz Sonderkommando in contemporary culture / Dominic Williams. - Instagram and Auschwitz : a critical assessment of the impact social media has on Holocaust representation / Gemma Commane and Rebekah Potton. - Encountering Auschwitz : touring the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum / Claire Griffiths. - Afterword, conclusion / Christine Berberich. Special issue. 208 pagina's. ; 25 cm.