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The European Legacy
Toward New Paradigms
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Pages 659-704 | Published online: 02 Jul 2010

  • 1996 . Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History , Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press . Cathy Caruth, Dominick LaCapra, Saul Friedländer and others have recently engaged in a debate over whether the traumatic past is given historical meaning in a return to its repressed contents or whether history gives memory meaning. For Caruth
  • Roth , Michael . 1995 . The Ironist's Cage: Memory, Trauma, and the Construction of History , New York : Columbia University Press . history is understood not referentially to the immediate effects of the traumatic event but in the interpretive shaping of memory through the imagination. Seen differently, Holocaust trauma is a latent Nachtr?ichkeit that reinvents the past in the writing of history
  • LaCapra , Dominick . 1998 . History and Memory after Auschwitz , Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press .
  • 1996 . Murder In Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation , New York : Oxford University Press .

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