Holocaust literature / editor, Dorian Stuber, Hendrix College, Arkansas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stuber, Dorian, editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors' writings.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 250 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2016]

Summary:

This book provides readers with essays that explore the literature that came out of The Holocaust, from non-fiction accounts like Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" and Elie Wiesel's "Night" to fictionalized novels such as "Sophie's Choice" by William Styron. A list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes, is also included.

Contents:

On Holocaust literature / Dorian Stuber

Critical Contexts. The canonical testifiers / Sue Vice

Narrative voice and the struggle against silence: Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Ruth Klüger, and Fred Wander as case studies in German Jewish Holocaust literature / Corey L. Twitchell

Changing conceptions of Holocaust literature / Rebekah Slodounik

Through fractured glass: three theoretical lenses for viewing Sebald's Austerlitz / Okla Elliott. Critical Readings. Looking at/in Maus: a survey of critical approaches / Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz

The influence of gender performance on women's resistance to Nazi dehumanization in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After / Vanessa Rachael Marsden

Jewish identity in crisis: Philip Roth and the Holocaust / Seth Rogoff

Three generations of Holocaust literature for young people / Jennifer Drake Askey

Holocaust film and the ethics of representation / Nathaniel Leach

Travels in Yiddishlands: three centers of Yiddish responses to the Holocaust / Naya Lekht

Between mimesis and allegory: Vasily Grossman, Boris Slutsky, the Strugatsky Brothers and the meaning of the Holocaust in Russian / Marat Grinberg

Flowerless gardeners: poetry after Auschwitz / Jennifer M. Hoyer

"Nothing is quite meant literally": Adorno and the barbarism of poetry after Auschwitz / Marianne Tettlebaum

The daunting task of approaching Holocaust literature for the first time / Brian Tucker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781619255289

1619255286

OCLC:

963933459