Re-examining the holocaust through literature / edited by Aukje Kluge and Benn E. Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kluge, Aukje.

Williams, Benn E.

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Bibliography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 396 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

Summary:

In the late 1980s, Holocaust literature emerged as a provocative, but poorly defined, scholarly field. The essays in this volume reflect the increasingly international and pluridisciplinary nature of this scholarship and the widening of the definition of Holocaust literature to include comic books, fiction, film, and poetry, as well as the more traditional diaries, memories, and journals. Ten contributors from four countries engage issues of authenticity, evangelicalism, morality, representation, personal experience, and wish-fulfillment in Holocaust literature, which have been the subject of controversies in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East.

Of interest to students and instructors of antisemitism, national and comparative literatures, theater, film, history, literary criticism, religion, and Holocaust studies, this book also contains an extensive bibliography with references in over twenty languages which seeks to inspire further research in an international context.

Contents:

Part I Mixing Genres, Histories, and Representation

Car cela devient une histoire: Issues of Representation in the Imaginative and Collective Memoirs of Charlotte Delbo / Elizabeth Scheiber 3

Peter Weiss's Die Ermittlung: Dramatic and Legal Representation and the Auschwitz Trial / Scott Windham 29

The Limits of Holocaust Representation in the Arab World / Esther Webman 61

Part II Fiction, History, and Moral Choices

Varying Shades of Gray: Pierre Assouline at the Frontier of Fact and Fiction / Benn E. Williams 111

Suffering, Heroism, and the Healing Arrival of the Savoir: The Holocaust in Evangelical Literature / Yaakov Ariel 131

A Thousand Darknesses: Elie Wiesel's Night / Ruth Franklin 155

Part III Comic Books, Film, and Poetry: The Holocaust and the Other Genres

The Holocaust through Comic Books / Tal Bruttmann 173

"Life and Counterlife": The Topos of Wish-Fulfillment in Holocaust Literature / Jehanne Dubrow 201

Samuel Fuller at Falkenau: From Soldier to Film Director / Christian Delage 217

Part IV Reflections on Current and Future Research

Epilogue "Simply and Complexly Something Else" / Benn E. Williams 231

An International Bibliography of Holocaust Literature / Benn E. Williams 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

1443801763

9781443801768

OCLC:

307294388