The Holocaust and the text : speaking the unspeakable / edited by Andrew Leak and George Paizis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leak, Andrew N., 1956-

Paizis, George.

University of London. Institute of Romance Studies.

University of London. Centre for English Studies.

Wiener Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 196 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

Essays in this volume take as their starting point the strivings of imaginative writing to surmount the problem of representing and interpreting the Holocaust and seek ways to connect past experience to the present and future. An underlying message is that literature might have a unique role to play in helping us learn the lessons of history and avoid repeating its tragic mistakes. Subjects include postwar fiction and the Shoah, and the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of children. The editors are lecturers in French at University College of London.

Contents:

1 Holocaust Genres and the Turn to History / Berel Lang 17

2 Holocaust Writing in Context: Italy 1945-47 / Robert S.C. Gordon 32

3 Representations of the Holocaust in Women's Testimony / Anna Hardman 51

4 Between Repulsion and Attraction: George Steiner's Post-Holocaust Fiction / Bryan Cheyette 67

5 The Holocaust as Seen through the Eyes of Children / Andrea Reiter 83

6 From behind the Bars of Quotation Marks: Emmanuel Levinas's (Non)-Representation of the Holocaust / Robert Eaglestone 97

7 Idioms for the Unrepresentable: Postwar Fiction and the Shoah / Ann Parry 109

8 The Demidenko Affair and Contemporary Holocaust Fiction / Sue Vice 125

9 Is Aharon Appelfeld a Holocaust Writer? / Leon I. Yudkin 142

10 The Mirror of Memory: Patrick Modiano's / La place de l'etoile, Dora Bruder, Samuel Khalifa 159

11 'Il n'y a qu'une espece humaine': between Duras and Antelme / Martin Crowley 174.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In association with The Institute for Romance Studies and The Institute for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, The University of London, and The Wiener Library."

ISBN:

031222866X

OCLC:

42027521