Marianne Hirsch a Leo Spitzer sú poprední literárni vedci, ktorých práca sa ponorila do hlbín pamäti, rodinnej histórie a kultúrneho odkazu. Hirsch sa zameriava na vzťah medzi vizuálnymi médiami a naratívom, skúma, ako fotografie formujú naše chápanie minulosti a osobné spomienky. Spitzer, ktorého bádanie je zakorenené v histórii, osvetľuje zložité interakcie medzi kultúrou, pamäťou a traumou, najmä v kontexte skúseností utečencov. Spoločne ich diela ponúkajú prienikavé pohľady na to, ako jednotlivci a spoločnosti konštruujú a udržiavajú svoje spomienky.
Can we remember other people's memories? This book argues that we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. In these revised critical readings of the literary and visual legacies of the Holocaust, Hirsch builds on her influential concept of postmemory.
Can the story be told? Jorge Semprun asked after his liberation from Buchenwald. The question is addressed from many angles in this volume of essays on teaching about the Holocaust. In their introduction, Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes argue that Semprun's question is as vital now, and as difficult and complex, as it was for the survivors in 1945.The thirty-eight contributors to Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust come from various disciplines (history, literary criticism, psychology, film studies) and address a wide range of issues pertinent to the teaching of a subject that many teachers and students feel is an essential part of a liberal arts education.This volume offers approaches to such works as Jurek Becker's Jacob the Liar , Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful , Anne Frank's diary, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners , Claude Lanzmann's Shoah , Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz , Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl , Dan Pagis's "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car," Art Spiegelman's Maus , Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List , Elie Wiesel's Night , and Abraham Yehoshua's Mr. Mani .To the challenge "How do we transmit so hurtful an image of our own species without killing hope and breeding indifference?" posed by Geoffrey Hartman in this volume, the editors respond, "Only in the very human context of classroom interaction can we hope to avoid either false redemption or unending despair."
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.