Traumatic realism: the demands of Holocaust representation

How to approach the Holocaust and its relationship to late twentieth century society. This problem is at the centre of Rothberg's focused account of the psychic, intellectual and cultural aftermath of the Holocaust.Drawing on a wide range of philosophical, literary, historical and popular texts by such writers and thinkers as Adorno, Blanchot, Kluger, Delbo, Speigelman and Roth and films by Spielberg and Lanzmann, he puts forth an overarching framework for understanding representations of the Holocaust