Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust – Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation: Jewish Literature and Culture

Emma Young

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation
I. Interpreting Literary Testimony
1. On Rereading Holocaust Diaries and Memoirs
2. From Witness to Legend: Tales of the Holocaust
3. Holocaust Documentary Fiction: Novelist as Eyewitness
4. Documentary Theater, Ideology, and the Rhetoric of Face
II. Figuring and Refiguring the Holocaust: Interpreting Holocaust Metaphor
5. Names of the Holocaust: Meaning and Consequences
6. The Holocaust Becomes an Archetype
7. The Holocaust Confessions of Sylvia Plath
8. When Soldier-Poets Remember the Holocaust: Antiwar Poetry in Israel
III. Texts of the Holocaust: A Narrative Critique
Introduction
9. Holocaust Video and Cinemagraphic Testimony: Documenting the Witness
10. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index