... that incorporates the imaginative recovery of (often silenced) history that Toni Morrison (1987) called “rememory,” along with what Holocaust scholar Michael Rothberg (2009) calls “multidirectional memory,” this article details Williams’s daring exploration of spaces of overlap between the histories of American...

...Danielle Christmas In William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner , and the responses to his novels, two contrasting discourses emerge: a commitment to the idea that histories of slavery and the Holocaust can be explained by economic motives, on one hand, and, on the other...

... weapon. In contrast to the privileging of bearing witness in post-Holocaust theories of language and suffering, this essay argues that Barker and Djebar ultimately suggest that, in the face of war’s atrocities, not speaking is an equally valuable act. Despite the increasing prohibitions established...

...Michele Elam The winner of this year’s prize is Mark A. Tabone’s “Multidirectional Rememory: Slavery and the Holocaust in John A. Williams’s Clifford’s Blues.” The judge is Michele Elam. Elam’s scholarship and teaching in interdisciplinary humanities research spans literature and social science...

.... If Sophie is her own betrayer, to what extent is she held paradoxically responsible for her own victimization? Styron quite intentionally sets out to complicate Sophie’s status as a Holocaust victim. In a 1980 interview, he explains that in order to make Sophie really complicated and give...

...Karyn Ball Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject , by Eisenstein Paul , Albany : State University of New York Press , 2003 . 236 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 41 Reviews Hegel Without Reserve Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust...

... be revealed. All subsequent, post- apocalyptic destruction would be absolutely without meaning, mere repeti­ tion. We can point to four principle areas of postwar apocalyptic representa­ tion. The first is nuclear war, the second is the Holocaust, the third is the apocalypses of liberation...

...’ experience of World War II, suggesting that the horrors of the Holocaust do not feel far removed from his present-day experi­ ence in the twenty-first century.1 “The killer apes learned nothing from the twin towers of Auschwitz and Hiroshima,” Spiegelman writes; 9/11 is the “same old deadly business...

... and the 126 Review novel, but are especially consonant with the convulsions of the twentieth century” (9), particularly the advent of total war, the Holocaust, and the increasingly evident inconsistencies within modern democracies. According to Scheingold’s analysis, Franz Kafka’s The Trial (1925...

... Holocaust history in America” (30). T he concern here is not to weaken the legacy of the Shoah but to chal­ lenge a tendency in w hich “popular US history assimilates the histories o f ethnic groups into a single history, often divesting plural histories of their particularity” (31). Franco...

...” and “prophetic eschatology” is rhe­ torically refigured as a double apocalypse. Without losing sight of clinical experience, Irigaray poses a synechdochic figure of the “holocaust” of the female subject in a “wounding” intimacy that is in dynamic disequilibrium with the vision of a genuine because...

... the voice of prose and, although her life and writing were tragically cut short, the one major work that she left us—the 1971 novel Malina —possesses such force and originality, such violence and such devastatingly deep music, that no study of Holocaust literature could be considered complete without her...

... negotiated and thereby envisaged the contours of this emergent legal terrain prior to its codification within law. Moreover, Reichman submits that, following the holocaust, international criminal tribunals relied on formulations of both trauma and ethical duty formerly exclusive to the domain...

... the caesura of the Holocaust as a total trauma that is un(re)present- 202 Sublime Anamnesis: Hysteria and Temporality in Thomas’s The White Hotel able and reduces everyone (victims, witnesses, perpetrators, re- visionists, those born later) to an ultimately homogenizing yet...

... and structural trauma and born from a number of factors, including the growth of Holocaust studies and the recognition of posttraumatic stress disorder by the American Psychiatric Association, trauma studies itself, it could be argued, is another effect of the increasingly violent recent history of humanity. 4...

... to the aesthetic achievements of Holocaust writing: “Cambodia does not yet have its Anne Frank or Elie Wiesel, two storytellers who bore so hard into the particulars of their experience that they could speak for anonymous millions” (quoted in Schlund-Vials 116). As Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith put it, Holocaust...

... of critical approach to Delbo, stressing the incommunicability of trauma as a “dream” while also focusing on the aesthetic techniques that turn that dream into an aesthetic relic. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 affect Holocaust memory pain trauma witness Involuntary convulsions...

... that prompted the wry title of Martha Bartter’s article: “Nuclear Holocaust as Urban Renewal.” Postapocalypse, however, is a discourse not so much of radical transfor­ mation as of “aftermaths and remainders” (Berger xii). The end has come and gone but the apocalyptic “text does not end, nor does...

..., the Nazis sealed the fate of Europe’s Jews by orchestrating Kristallnacht, the opening shot of the Holocaust, torching and shattering the Jews of Germany and Austria. Although Bottome testified to the catastrophes of two world wars and of imperialism, Hirsch never allows these crucial events...

... figure, credited with providing penetrating insights into the state of humanity after the Holocaust. Seeking out the stories of his friends and associates, Morin gathers together an image of the political culture that surrounded Beckett in Dublin during the 1920s and 1930s, including his involvement...