Representations of Anne Frank in American literature : in different rooms / Rachael McLennan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLennan, Rachael, author.

Series:

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 70.

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frank, Anne, 1929-1945--In literature.

Frank, Anne.

Frank, Anne, 1929-1945.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 241 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction: Telling Stories in New Ways? Anne Frank in American Literature

Prosthetic Fictions: Philip Roth's Anne Franks

The Banality of Anne Frank: Open Secrets in Norma Rosen's Touching Evil (1969) and Joyce Carol Oates's Mother, Missing (2005)

"Cheating History": Anne Frank and the Photograph in Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) and Elinor Lipman's The Inn at Lake Devine (1998)

Skewed Views: What Anne Frank Teaches in Stephanie S. Tolan's The Liberation of Tansy Warner (1980) and John Green's The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

Uprooting the Lost Child: Cultivating Identifications in C. K. Williams's "A Day for Anne Frank" (1968), Marjorie Agosin's Dear Anne Frank (1998), and Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude (1982)

In Other Words: Anne Frank and the Alternate (Personal) History in Ellen Feldman's The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank (2005) and Jillian Cantor's Margot (2013)

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank": Holocaust Impiety and Competitive Memory in Shalom Auslander's Hope: A Tragedy (2012) and Nathan Englander's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank" (2012)

States of Confusion: Anne Frank and America in Michelle Cliff's Abeng (1984) and "A Visit to the Anne Frank House" (1985).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415724708

0415724708

OCLC:

956263700