After Representation? The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture, R. Clifton Spargo and Robert M. Ehrenreich, eds. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2009), xii + 242 pp., cloth 49.95
This volume's title suggests a provocation. Insofar as question marks can elucidate matters, the question mark in “After Representation?” makes clear that the editors are aware of the possibility that nothing follows representation, which is to say: there may be no getting past the problem of r...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 329-332 |
| Review of: | After representation? (New Brunswick, NJ [u. a.] : Rutgers Univ. Press, 2010) (Prager, Brad)
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| Summary: | This volume's title suggests a provocation. Insofar as question marks can elucidate matters, the question mark in “After Representation?” makes clear that the editors are aware of the possibility that nothing follows representation, which is to say: there may be no getting past the problem of representation, or, at least, that we are far from finished with it. It seems that Theodor W. Adorno, who is quoted now most frequently for what he did not mean to say about this particular subject, could no more have declared an end to poetry in the postwar period than he could have declared an end to soup. Representation—in this case, the depiction of atrocity in art and literature—proceeds apace., Representation continues accompanied by an apparently infinite set of conundrums—a point R. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr032 |