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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967092103321

Autore

Sicher Efraim

Titolo

The Holocaust novel / / Efraim Sicher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2005

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

0-203-95773-3

1-135-45708-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxix, 261 p.)

Collana

Genres in context The Holocaust novel

Genres in context

Disciplina

809.39358

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature - History and criticism - 20th century

Fiction

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Tabe of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chronology -- Chapter1. About the Holocaust Novel -- Birth of a Genre -- History of a Genre and National History -- Elie Wiesel -- America -- Israel -- Germany and Austria -- France -- The Netherlands -- Italy -- Behind The Iron Curtain -- Chapter 2. Survivors: "If It Is a Novel, It Is Not About Majdanek..." -- Elie Wiesel, Night -- Primo levi, if not now, When? -- Aharon Appelfeld, Badenheim 1939 -- Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird -- Chapter 3. The Jewish American Post-Holocaust Novel: Imagining the Unimaginable -- "Witnessing Through the Imagination" -- Imagining the Witness: Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet -- Imagining Witnessing: Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Anya -- Beyond Imagination: Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl and The Messiah of Stockholm -- Chapter 4. Holocaust Fictions, or Fictional



Holocausts -- History as Fiction -- Styron's Choice -- Schindler's List-The Novel -- Babi Yar Revisited -- History and Fiction: Holocaust Fiction or Fictional Holocausts? -- Chapter 5. The "Second Generation": The Vicarious Witness -- Who are the "Second Generation"? -- After and the Invention of the Past: M.J. Bukiet and Thane Rosenbaum -- Maus: A Second-Generation Memoir -- David Grossman's Encyclopedia: See Under: Love -- "La Mémoire Trouée": Raczymov and Anissimov -- Modiano: In Search of Lost Memory -- Dutch Jewish "Children of the War" -- Homeless in Heimat: The Second Generation in Germany and Austria -- The second generation-And a Third? -- Chapter 6. Postmodernist "holocausts" -- After the Postapocalypse -- Postholocaust/Postmodern: White Noise and Time's Arrow -- Other Women's Holocausts: Eve's Tattoo and the Kommandant's Mistress -- Fugitive Memories: Ann Michaels -- The Holocaust as a Postmodernist Fiction: Federman's Surfiction.

History Memory, and the Failure of Mimesis: McEwan, Sebald, Seiffert -- Bibliographic Essay -- Recommended Reading -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to this historical tragedy. This student-friendly volume answers a dire need for readers to understand a genre in which boundaries and often blurred between history, fiction, autobiography, and memoir. Other essential features for students here include an annotated bibliography, chronology, and further reading list. Major texts discussed include such widely taught works as Night, Maus, The Shawl, Schindler's List, Sophie's Choice, White Noise, and Time's Arrow.