Holocaust literature /

Presents a collection of original essays that provide an in-depth look at the literature that came out of The Holocaust.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stuber, Dorian (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, MA : Amenia, NY : EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Grey House Publishing, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • About This Volume
  • On Holocaust Literature
  • Critical Contexts
  • The Canonical Testifiers
  • Narrative Voice and the Struggle against Silence: Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Ruth Kluger, and Fred Wander as Case Studies in German Jewish Holocaust Literature
  • Changing Conceptions of Holocaust Literature
  • Through Fractured Glass: Three Theoretical Lenses for Viewing Sebald's Austerlitz
  • Critical Readings
  • Looking at/in Maus: A Survey of Critical Approaches
  • The Influence of Gender Performance on Women's Resistance to Nazi Dehumanization in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After
  • Jewish Identity in Crisis: Philip Roth and the Holocaust
  • Three Generations of Holocaust Literature for Young People
  • Holocaust Film and the Ethics of Representation
  • Travels in Yiddishlands: Three Centers of Yiddish Responses to the Holocaust
  • Between Mimesis and Allegory: Vasily Grossman, Boris Slutsky, the Strugatsky Brothers and the Meaning of the Holocaust in Russian
  • Flowerless Gardeners: Poetry after Auschwitz
  • "Nothing is Meant Quite Literally": Adorno and the Barbarism of Poetry after Auschwitz
  • The Daunting Task of Approaching Holocaust Literature for the First Time
  • Resources
  • Further Reading
  • Bibliography
  • About the Editor
  • Contributors
  • Index.