Holocaust vs. Popular Culture

Holocaust versus Popular Culture: A Critical Introduction  Part One: Explicating Incompatibility  1. Popular Fiction, Literary Culture, and Artistic Truth: Thane Rosenbaum’s The Golems of Gotham and Twenty-First Century Holocaust Representation  2. Playing with the Unspeakable: The Holocaust and Videogames  3. Representation, Appropriation, and Popular Culture: Food and the Holocaust in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist  4. Nazi Linguistics and Mass Manipulation: An Analysis of Holocaust Primary Sources vis-à-vis Popular Culture  Part Two: Rethinking Universalization  5. Hitler’s Popularity and the Trivialization of the Holocaust in India  6. Decoding Holocaust Narratives in Japanese Pop Culture: Through the Lens of Anne no Nikki (1995) and Persona Non Grata (2015)  7. Holocaust Representations through Popular Music: Ferramonti di Tarsia amidst Documentation, Commemoration and Mystification  8. Holocaust Museums: A Study of the Memory Policies of the USA and Poland  9. Trace and Trauma: Early Holocaust Remembrance in American and Canadian Popular Culture  Part Three: In Defence of Popular Culture  10. Mothers, Daughters and the Holocaust: A Study of Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs  11. Superheroes and the Holocaust in American Comics  12. Unearthing the Real in the Magical: Holocaust Memory and Magic Realism in Select Post-Holocaust Fictions  13. "Once-upon-a-very-real-time": Fairy Tales and Holocaust in Jane Yolen’s Novels  14. Retelling the Holocaust with Children: A Pedagogic Study of Stephen King’s Apt Pupil and Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic  15. "Is it safe?": Marathon Man as Holocaust Drama  16. Child’s Play, Fantasy and the Holocaust in Jojo Rabbit and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas  17. Incorrectamundo?: Holocaust, Humor, and Anti-Hate Satire in the Works of Brooks and Waititi

Mahitosh Mandal is Assistant Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
Priyanka Das is Assistant Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata, India.