The Shoah Simulacrum: postmemory and spectral homecoming in Maxim Biller’s novella “Harlem Holocaust”

In the context of the current German memory discourse, the age-old question of the interplay of remembrance and effacement has been revived. This article proposes to shed light on some of its ramifications through the prism of Maxim Biller’s novella Harlem Holocaust. Biller, born 1960 in Prague, is...

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Main Author: Veronika Köver
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2008-12-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/611