Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory

Introduction: caught by history: how this book came about 1. History's other: oppositional thought and its discontents Part I. 2. The seduction of directness 2. Testimonies and the limits of representation 3. Autobiography as resistance to history: Charlotte Salamon's 'Life or Theatre?' Part II. The Historical Approach to Memory, With a Difference: 4. Deadly historians: Christian Boltanski's intervention in Holocaust historiography 5. Touching Death: Armando's quest for an indexical language Part III. The Imaginative Approach to Memory: 6. The revivifying artist: Christian Boltanski's efforts to close the gap 7. A master of amazement: Armando's self-chosen exile Part IV. Giving Memory a Place: 8. Sublimity in the home: overcoming uncanniness Notes Works Cited Index.