Voices of pain, cries of silence Francophone Jewish poetry of the Shoah, 1939-2008 Mole, Gary D. creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. nyu 2024 monographic eng print xii, 306 pages ; 24 cm "In this groundbreaking study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Shoah, Gary D. Mole engages with an extensive heterogeneous corpus of poetry by more than forty poets active after the war in France, Belgium, Switzerland, or Quebec but originally coming from Eastern Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East. Some were adolescents or adults during the war, either in hiding, interned or deported, first-hand witnesses to the Nazi persecution of European Jews. Others were hidden children, survivors writing of their buried traumatic experiences many years later. And a second-generation born after the war became postmemory proxy witnesses. Broadly chronological in approach, the book places the poetry in its different social, political, and historical contexts, underlines the specific geographical locations of the authors, and then offers close thematic, formal, stylistic, and linguistic readings of the selected texts, highlighting some of the major aesthetic and ethical problems raised. Lucidly written, this book throws critical light, for scholars and nonspecialists, on a rich unjustly neglected corpus, arguing convincingly for its inclusion in current debates on French-language literary representations of the Shoah and more widely in what is commonly referred to as "Holocaust Poetry.""-- Introduction - The Jewish poetry of resistance, 1939-1946 - Shock, accusation, commemoration, 1946-1956 - Intermezzo, 1960-1964 - Memory and anti-Shoah denial, 1970-1996 - Poetry at the turn of the millennium, 2001-2008. Gary D. Mole. Includes bibliographical references and index. Jewish poetry 20th century History and criticism French poetry Jewish authors History and criticism Belgian poetry (French) Jewish authors History and criticism Swiss poetry (French) Jewish authors History and criticism French-Canadian poetry Jewish authors History and criticism Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature Poésie juive 20e siècle Histoire et critique Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature Poésie belge (française) Auteurs juifs Histoire et critique Poésie suisse (française) Auteurs juifs Histoire et critique Poésie canadienne-française Auteurs juifs Histoire et critique Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature Jewish poetry 1900-1999 fast PN842 .M64 2024 809/.19921296 Voices of pain, cries of silence Mole, Gary D. New York : Peter Lang, 2024 (DLC) 2023040419 Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ; v. 259 9781636676142 1636676146 9781636676159 9781636676166 2023040418 pda,print DLC 231030 20250318214212.6 in00005466293 eng