the afterlife of the sohah in central and eastern european is a collection of essays by literary scholars from germany, the us, and central eastern europe offering insight into the spesific ways of representing the shoah and its after effects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region.
introducing the conceptual frame of post catastrophic, the collected essays explore the discursiv and artistic space the shoah occupies in the countries between moscow and berlin. postcatastrphe is informed by the knowledge of other concepts of post and shares their insight into forms of transmission and latency , in contrast to them, explores the after effects of extreme events on a collective, aesthetic, and political rather than a personal level, the articel use the concept pf postcatastrophe as a key to understanding the entangled and conflicted cultures of rememberance in postsocialist literatures and the art dealing with events, phenomena, and developments that refuse to rmain in the past and still continue to shape perceptions of todays societies in eastern europe.