Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity : : Jewish Voices in Literature and Film / / Idit Alphandary.
The author's starting point is the interweaving of forgiveness and resentment in the works of Jewish writers after the Holocaust, most especially Hannah Arendt and Jean Améry, to make sense of the catastrophe and to point to a way forward for both victims and perpetrators. The insights of these...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (IX, 217 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of figures
- Introduction Theorizing forgiveness and resentment in the presence of radical evil
- Chapter 1 Forgiveness, resentment and reconciliation – on W. G. Sebald
- Interchapter 1 Aesthetic falsehood and emotion – on Bruno Schulz’s The Sanatorium Under the Hourglass and Wojciech Has’s The Hourglass Sanatorium
- Chapter 2 Love and worldliness – on Hannah Arendt
- Interchapter 2 The necessary fragility of paradox – on Christian Petzold’s Phoenix
- Chapter 3 The sincerity of forgiveness – on Heinrich Böll and Jean Améry
- Interchapter 3 Negative possessions – on Wladislaw Pasikowski’s Aftermath (Poklosie)
- Chapter 4 From emotion to national renewal – on J.M. Coetzee
- Interchapter 4 Memory and nonviolence – on Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro
- Coda Forgiveness, justice, and historical responsibility
- Bibliography
- Index