ABSTRACT

How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations—whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an interpretive or representational touchstone for genocides and traumas globally? In this interdisciplinary study, Kaplan asks and attempts to answer these questions by looking at historically and geographically diverse spaces, photographs, and texts concerned with the physical and/or mental landscape of the Holocaust and its transformations from the postwar period to the early twenty-first century. Examining the intersections of landscape, postmemory, and trauma, Kaplan's text offers a significant contribution to our understanding of the spatial, visual, and literary reach of the Holocaust.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I: Burning Landscapes: The Transformation of Hitler’s Holiday Retreat

chapter 1|23 pages

The Obersalzberg

chapter 2|13 pages

Eva’s Cousin

chapter 3|22 pages

Past Present

part |2 pages

Part II: Burning Images: Three Photographers Explore Traumatic Landscapes

chapter 4|28 pages

Lee Miller: No Stasis

chapter 5|23 pages

Susan Silas’s Helmbrechts Walk

chapter 6|17 pages

Collier Schorr: Reenacting Nazis

part |2 pages

Part III: Burning Silence: The Uncanny Presence of the Holocaust in the Work of J.M. Coetzee

chapter 7|20 pages

Life & Times

chapter 8|23 pages

Foe

chapter 9|14 pages

Elizabeth Costello and Disgrace