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The subject of Holocaust fiction / Emily Miller Budick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Budick, E. Miller, author.
- Series:
- Jewish literature and culture.
- Jewish literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Considering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.
- Contents:
- Voyeurism, complicated mourning, and the fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl
- Forced confessions: subject position, framing, and the "Art" of Spiegelman's Maus
- Aryeh Lev Stollman's The Far Euphrates: re-picturing the pre-memory moment
- Bruno Schulz, The Messiah, and ghost/writing the past
- A Jewish history of blocked mourning and love
- See under: mourning
- Blacks, Jews, and southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice
- (re)reading the Holocaust from a German point of view: Bernhard Schlink's The Reader
- Mourning and melancholia in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz
- Holocaust, apartheid, and the slaughter of animals: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Cora Diamond's "difficulty of reality".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253016324
- 0253016320
- OCLC:
- 905349826
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