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The fantastic in Holocaust literature and film : critical perspectives / edited by Judith B. Kerman and John Edgar Browning ; foreword by Jane Yolen.
Van Pelt Library PN56.F34 F3555 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yolen, Jane, author of foreword.
- Series:
- Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 49.
- Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy ; 49
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy literature--History and criticism.
- Fantasy literature.
- Fantasy films--History and criticism.
- Fantasy films.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- x, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
- Summary:
- "This collection of new essays explores the use of fantastic story-telling in Holocaust literature and film. Writers such as Jane Yolen and Art Spiegelman are discussed, as well as the sci-fi television series V (1983), Stephen King's novella Apt Pupil (1982), Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Martin Scorsese's dark thriller Shutter Island (2010)"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: fantasy as testimony / Gary K. Wolfe
- Avenues of the fantastic in Holocaust literature. Uses of the fantastic in literature of the Holocaust / Judith B. Kerman
- The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature: Writing and unwriting the unbearable / Michael P. McCleary
- Surviving the Survivor: Art Spiegelman's Maus / Joan Gordon
- The Fantastic Search for Hitler: The Fuhrer's Defense in His Own Words / Eric J. Sterling
- "Hidden in Plain Sight": On Holocaust Fantasy in the Metaphysical Detective Story / Patricia Merivale
- The Summons of Freedom: Fantastic History in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated / Paul Eisenstein
- The Holocaust and Fantasy Literature. The Last of the Just: Lifting Moloch to Heaven / Jules Zanger
- The Door to Lilith's Cave: Memory and Imagination in Jane Yolen's Holocaust Novels / Ellen R. Weil
- Mother Goose Tales: Intergenerational Storytelling and the Holocaust in Jane Yolen's Briar Rose and Peter Rushforth's Kindergarten / Vandana Saxena
- The Devil's Arithmetic and Time Travel: Truth and Memory / Carol A. Senf
- (Re)Imagining the Holocaust through horror, humor and science fiction. A Holocaust education in reverse: Stephen King's "The summer of corruption: apt pupil" / Leon Stein
- Holocaust-as-Horror, Science Fiction and the "Look" of the "Real/Reel" in V (1983) / John Edgar Browning
- A Dishonest Reckoning: Play-"Acting Through" Personal Trauma and the Shoah in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010) / Kristopher Mecholsky
- Going Beyond Horror: Fantasy, Humor and the Holocaust / Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786458745
- 0786458747
- OCLC:
- 891324480
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