LEADER 04922nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910967092103321 005 20251116193520.0 010 $a0-203-95773-3 010 $a1-135-45708-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000001159196 035 $a(DLC)2005006354 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25736798 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001048069 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11599451 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001048069 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10996503 035 $a(PQKB)10432730 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1521120 035 $a(OCoLC)862746406 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB133168 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001159196 100 $a20050308d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Holocaust novel /$fEfraim Sicher 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cRoutledge$d2005 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (xxix, 261 p.) 225 0 $aGenres in context The Holocaust novel 225 0$aGenres in context 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-415-96796-1 311 08$a1-306-11149-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-250) and index. 327 $aCover -- 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. 327 $aHistory Memory, and the Failure of Mimesis: McEwan, Sebald, Seiffert -- Bibliographic Essay -- Recommended Reading -- Notes -- Index. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature 606 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature$xHistory and criticism$y20th century 606 $aFiction 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aLiterature - General$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books.$2lcsh 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aFiction. 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aLiterature - General 676 $a809.39358 700 $aSicher$b Efraim$0596561 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bUkPrAHLS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967092103321 996 $aThe Holocaust novel$94450259 997 $aUNINA