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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814804803321

Autore

Langer Lawrence L

Titolo

Admitting the holocaust : collected essays / / Lawrence L. Langer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1996

ISBN

0-19-028304-1

0-19-535554-7

1-4294-0155-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Disciplina

940.5318

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Warfare and Defence

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Foreword -- Dedication -- Preface -- Content -- Introduction -- 1:  Memory's Time: Chronology and Duration in Holocaust Testimonies -- 2:  Beyond Theodicy: Jewish Victims and the Holocaust -- 3:  A Tainted Legacy: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto -- 4:  Ghetto Chronicles: Life at the Brink -- 5:  Cultural Resistance to Genocide -- 6:  Understanding Atrocity: Killers and Victims in the Holocaust -- 7:  Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions: History in Holocaust Literature -- 8:  The Literature of Auschwitz -- 9:  Kafka as Holocaust Prophet: A Dissenting View -- 10:  Aharon Appelfeld and the Language of Sinister Silence -- 11:  Myth and Truth in Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" and "Rosa" -- 12:  Malamud's Jews and the Holocaust Experience -- 13:  The Americanization of the Holocaust on Stage and Screen -- 14:  What More Can Be Said About the Holocaust? -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This text is a powerful view of this catastrophe that is candid and disturbing, and yet hopeful in its belief that the testimony of witnesses - in diaries, journals, memoirs, and on videotape - and the unflinching imagination of literary artists can still offer us access to one of the



darkest episodes in the 20th century.