At Home with the Holocaust

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LUCAS F. W. WILSON is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto Mississauga. He is the editor of Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy, as well as the coeditor of Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature.

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Based on analyses of literature and oral histories of children of survivors, At Home with the Holocaust reveals how the material conditions of survivor-family homes, along with household practices and belongings, rendered these homes as archives of trauma that in turn traumatized the children of Holocaust survivors.

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Preface
Introduction
1 Postmemorial Structures: The “Space” and “Stuff” of Survivor-Family Homes
2 “Remember, my house it’s also your house too”: Postmemorial Structures in Art Spiegelman’s Maus
3 Domestic(ated) (Un)fashioning: Sonia Pilcer’s The Holocaust Kid
4 A Tale of Two Storeys: Upper and Lower Space and Postmemorial Divergences in Elizabeth Rosner’s The Speed of Light
5 Pre/Occupied Longing: Toward a Definition of Postnostalgia in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated
6 Conclusion
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Preface ix
Introduction 1
1 Postmemorial Structures: The “Space” and “Stuff” of Survivor-Family Homes 15
2 “Remember, my house it’s also your house too”: Postmemorial Structures in Art Spiegelman’s Maus 32
3 Domestic(ated) (Un)fashioning: Sonia Pilcer’s
The Holocaust Kid 51
4 A Tale of Two Storeys: Upper and Lower Space and Postmemorial Divergences in Elizabeth Rosner’s The Speed of Light 76
5 Pre/Occupied Longing: Toward a Definition of Postnostalgia in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated 101
Conclusion 124
Appendix 133
Acknowledgments 135
Notes 139
Bibliography 161
Index 000