TY - BOOK ID - 31461409 TI - Remembering and imagining the Holocaust : the chain of memory PY - 2006 SN - 9780521869348 052186934X 9780511486098 9780511349904 0511349904 051148609X 1281085979 9781281085979 9786611085971 6611085971 1139132512 9781139132510 0511350805 9780511350801 0511349033 9780511349034 0511348061 9780511348068 110717130X PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Memory in literature. KW - Autobiographical memory. KW - Holocauste, 1939-1945 dans la littérature KW - Holocauste, 1939-1945 KW - Mémoire dans la littérature KW - Mémoire épisodique KW - Personal narratives KW - History and criticism. KW - Récits personnels KW - Histoire et critique KW - Literature KW - World history KW - Jewish religion KW - anno 1940-1949 KW - Memory KW - Memory as a theme in literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31461409 AB - This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. It is also an exploration of the ways in which fiction and drama have attempted to approach a subject so resistant to the imagination. Beginning with W. G. Sebald, for whom memory and the Holocaust were the roots of a special fascination, Bigsby moves on to consider those writers Sebald himself valued, including Arthur Miller, Anne Frank, Primo Levi and Peter Weiss, and those whose lives crossed in the bleak world of the camps, in fact or fiction. The book offers a chain of memories. It sets witness against fiction, truth against wilful deceit. It asks the question who owns the Holocaust - those who died, those who survived to bear witness, those who appropriated its victims to shape their own necessities. ER -