{"product_id":"mind-of-the-holocaust-perpetrator-in-fiction-and-nonfiction-paperback","title":"Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErin McGlothlin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction\u003c\/em\u003e examines texts that portray the inner experience of Holocaust perpetrators and thus transform them from archetypes of evil into complex psychological and moral subjects. Employing relevant methodological tools of narrative theory, Erin McGlothlin analyzes these unsettling depictions, which manifest a certain tension regarding the ethics of representation and identification. Such works, she asserts, endeavor to make transparent the mindset of their violent subjects, yet at the same time they also invariably contrive to obfuscate in part its disquieting character. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction \u003c\/em\u003econtains two parts. The first focuses on portraits of real-life perpetrators in nonfictional interviews and analyses from the 1960s and 1970s. These works provide a nuanced perspective on the mentality of the people who implemented the Holocaust via the interventional role of the interviewer or interpreter in the perpetrators' performances of self-disclosure. In part two, McGlothlin investigates more recent fictional texts that imagine the perspective of their invented perpetrator-narrators. Such works draw readers directly into the perpetrator's experience and at the same time impede their access to the perpetrator's consciousness by retarding their affective connection. Demonstrating that recent fiction featuring perpetrators as narrators employs strategies derived from earlier nonfictional portrayals, McGlothlin establishes not only a historical connection between these two groups of texts, whereby nonfictional engagement with real-life perpetrators gradually gives way to fictional exploration, but also a structural and aesthetic one. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book bespeaks new modes of engagement with ethically fraught questions raised by our increasing willingness to consider the events of the Holocaust from the perspective of the perpetrator. Students, scholars, and readers of Holocaust studies and literary criticism will appreciate this closer look at a historically taboo topic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eErin McGlothlin is professor of German and Jewish studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSecond-Generation Holocaust Literature: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor with Brad Prager and Markus Zisselsberger of \u003ci\u003eThe Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann's \u003c\/i\u003eShoah \u003ci\u003eand Its Outtakes\u003c\/i\u003e (Wayne State University Press, 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 04, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47413083013298,"sku":"9780814348345","price":71.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/afcd078ab19e6b667b979b250715b82c.webp?v=1778339729","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/mind-of-the-holocaust-perpetrator-in-fiction-and-nonfiction-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}