The Holocaust novel / / Efraim Sicher

• Autore: Sicher Efraim
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2005; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxix, 261 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.39358
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Holocaust novel
• ISBN: 0-203-95773-3; 1-135-45708-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818505603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II