Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, New York
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Memory as reinvention in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day -- Chapter 2: Visionary disenchantment: Accessing second...
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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Memory as reinvention in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day -- Chapter 2: Visionary disenchantment: Accessing second sight in The Kindly Ones -- Chapter 3: An exemplary Bildungsheld: Bringing diaspora home in Daniel Stein, Interpreter -- Chapter 4: Unofficial education and the promotion of active readership in two Holocaust-themed novels for children: Hitler's Daughter and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas -- Chapter 5: The Counterfeiters as Bildungsfilm: Allegorizing Jewish history -- Chapter 6: A protagonist for dark times: Repurposing memory and the future of civil courage in Margarethe von Trotta's biopic Hannah Arendt -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. "Explores influential historical fictions about the Holocaust that deploy narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman in which a perpetrator or complicit protagonist interrogates their own past and questions ideologies responsible for the catastrophic genocide and its legacy"--
