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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969431803321

Autore

Fridman Lea Wernick <1949->

Titolo

Words and witness : narrative and aesthetic strategies in the representation of the Holocaust / / Lea Wernick Fridman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2000

ISBN

9780791492444

0791492443

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Disciplina

809/.93358

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Jews - Persecutions

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. 151-164) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.