Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust

Marianne Hirsch is professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory and articles on Holocaust memory, visuality, and gender. Irene Kacandes, associate professor of German studies and comparative literature at Dartmouth College, is the author of Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion and Daddy's War: Greek American Storytelling, Family Memory, and Trauma. A Paramemoir. She is coeditor (with Scott Denham and Jonathan Petropoulos) of A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies.

"This is an excellent and important book. It will be helpful to many teachers in the field of literary and cultural studies who would like to teach a course on the Holocaust." --Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania