Gendered testimonies of the Holocaust : writing life / Petra M. Schweitzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schweitzer, Petra, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--History and criticism.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jewish women in the Holocaust.

Holocaust survivors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xxix, 103 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]

Summary:

Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life begins with the premise that writing proves virtually synonymous with survival, bearing the traces of life and of death carried within those who survived the atrocities of the Nazis. In reading specific testimonies by survivor-writers Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, Olga Lengyel, Gisella Perl, and Dan Pagis, this text seeks to answer the question: How was it possible for these survivors to write about human destruction, if death is such an intimate part of the survival? This book shows how the works of these survivors arise creatively from a vigorous spark, the desire to preserve memory. Testimony for each of these writers is a form of relation to oneself but also to others. It situates each survivor's anguish in writing as a need to write so as to affirm life. Writing as such always bears witness to the life of the one who should be dead by now and thus to the miracle of having survived. Book jacket.

Contents:

A mother's testimony as a dwelling place, Dan Pagis

Remembrance of the m/other/tongue, Paul Celan

The maternal function of giving testimony, Charlotte Delbo

Embodied existence of mothers, Gisella Perl and Olga Lengyel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Schweitzer, Petra, author. Gendered testimonies of the Holocaust.

ISBN:

9780739190074

0739190075

OCLC:

949324818