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Words and witness : narrative and aesthetic strategies in the representation of the Holocaust / Lea Wernick Fridman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fridman, Lea Wernick, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- Jews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Connects Holocaust literature and film to other works of "historical horror" in order to examine the limits that trauma imposes upon literary and artistic expression.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Content
- History, Fantasy, and Horror
- The Silence of Historical Traumatic Experience: Aharon Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939
- Silence in Language and in History
- Historical Horror and the Literary Act of Witness: An Examination of Elie Wiesel's Night
- The Literary Act of Witness: Narrative, Voice, and the Problematic of the Real
- Concluding Thoughts and Promptings
- Back Matter
- Notes
- Works Consulted
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-164) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791492444
- 0791492443
- OCLC:
- 794701367
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