The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? Scholars address these and other questions in this collection.

Autorentext
GWYNETH BODGER Affiliated Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge, UK TIM COLE Senior Lecturer in Social History at the University of Bristol, UK RACHEL FALCONER Reader in English Literature in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, UK NICOLA KING Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the West of England, UK ANTONY ROWLAND Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Salford, UK LIBBY SAXTON Lecturer in French and Film Studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary, University of London, UK R. CLIFTON SPARGO Fiction writer and critic, and Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, USA URSULA TIDD Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, UK SUE VICE Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK ANNE WHITEHEAD Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Theory in the School of English at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Inhalt
Series Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Eaglestone & B.Langford Issues Arising from Teaching Holocaust Film and Literature; S.Vice & G.Bodger Holocaust Theory?; R.Eaglestone The Role of Theories of Memory in Teaching Representations of the Holocaust; A.Whitehead Teaching Holocaust Literature: Issues of Representation; N.King Mass Culture/Mass Media/Mass Death: Teaching Film, Television and the Holocaust; B.Langford 'Representing the Holocaust': An Interdisciplinary Module; A.Rowland Teaching the Holocaust in French Studies: Questions of Mediation and Experience; U.Tidd History, Memory, Fiction in French Cinema; L.Saxton Teaching Primo Levi; R.Falconer Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film to History Students: Teaching The Pawnbroker (1962/1965); T.Cole Sophie's Choice : On the Pedagogical Value of the 'Problem Text'; R.C.Spargo Timeline Bibliography Index