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Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- Fremdere Blicke -- Nationalsozialismus und die Zerstörung der narrativen Tradition des Humanen -- Transnationale Perspektiven - heterogene Erinnerungen? -- Gedächtnis und ›Heimat‹ im Transfer zwischen Osteuropa, Lateinamerika und Deutschland -- Brazil's Entangled Takes on the Holocaust -- Das Verstörende erzählen -- Das Thema des Nationalsozialismus in Prosawerken der mexikanischen Literatur der Gegenwart -- Efraín Huerta und José Revueltas -- Nationalsozialistische Agitation in der kolumbianischen und brasilianischen Provinz -- Against Oblivion -- Fluchtort Madrid -- Verflochtene Erinnerungen -- ›Good Empire‹, ›Bad Empire‹ -- Autor*innen- und Herausgeber*innenverzeichnis

As living memories of the Holocaust die out with the generation that witnessed the event, practitioners of memory work have focused on the transmission of memory to the next generations. Recent Holocaust memorialisation, in the form of literature, museums, memorials and monuments, must make Holocaust memory meaningful for those born after the event. With this in mind, the arts of Holocaust memorialisation often provoke a sense of secondary memory or vicarious witnessing, an attempt to experience Holocaust memory or even trauma by proxy - in short, the remembrance of things not witnessed. <

"In this book, scholars with expertise in various national literatures and cultures explore how the Holocaust has been represented in novels, memoirs, film, television, and architecture. This book provides a unique vantage point for the scholar and student to compare how national context impacts representations of the Holocaust"--

The article analyses recent forms of artistic representations of the Holocaust in Poland in the novels: Fabryka muchołapek by Andrzej Bart (2008) and Pensjonat by Piotr Paziński ( 2009 ). Debates in Poland in the 1990s and 2000s on the Polish role in the Holocaust have readdressed many unresolved issues in the Polish memory of the Shoah, sparking renewed interest and the need for complex and multi-perspective forms of artistic representations. Writers of the second and third generation confront the challenge with different degrees of emotional engagement and diverse forms of tension between the author's creative investment and the historical truth. The article examines the ways in which Bart and Paziński actualize the memory of the Shoah by engaging in a literary dialogue between past and present.

Building upon recent developments in memory studies and transnational memory, this book offers a comparative analysis of Yugoslav Holocaust memory and its intersections with other forms of extreme violence, such as the suffering of the non-Jewish South-Slav population during World War II, the victims of Stalinist terror, and the victims of ethnic cleansing in the Yugoslav wars. Drawing on a variety of sources, including (post- )Yugoslav Holocaust fiction, the author offers novel theoretical concepts that conceive of (traumatic) memory as non-competitive and foreground its capability to transcend the boundaries of the nation.