Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human.

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Matthew Boswell is a Research Fellow in the School of English at the University of Leeds, UK

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Introduction PART I: POETRY Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965) and Other Poems W. D. Snodgrass, The Fuehrer Bunker (1995) PART II: POPULAR MUSIC American Punk: Ramones, Ramones (1976) English Punk: Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks , Here's the Sex Pistols (1977) and The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1979) Post-Punk: Joy Division, Closer (1980) Post-Punk Rock: Manic Street Preachers, The Holy Bible (1994) PART III: FILM Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955) Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) The Grey Zone (Tim Blake Nelson, 2001) Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009) Index