Introduction: On the Cultural Continuities of Literary Representation -- Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written? -- A Question for Aesthetics? -- How Does Culture Influence Memory?
Summary
After Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studiesùtheintersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature. Contributors examine the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and reveal how writersùwhether they write as witnesses to the Holocaust or at an imaginative distance from the Nazi genocideùarticulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction, between event and expression, and between the condition of life endured in atrocity and the hope of ameaningful existence