Representing the Holocaust

Download or read book Representing the Holocaust written by Dominick LaCapra and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Representing the Holocaust is an impressive book that will have a significant impact on the way historians think about the Holocaust and the writing of history. LaCapra's precise and probing study explores the ways that the traumatic event inevitably disrupts the relationship between representation and memory. He writes from the deep conviction that whatever historians might believe, theory is indispensable for them. Indeed, his work best exemplifies the value of theory, setting a standard for historiographical reflection that is not easily matched."—Anson Rabinbach, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art