Voicing the void : muteness and memory in Holocaust fiction /
Through new close readings of Holocaust fiction, this book takes the field of Holocaust Studies in an important new direction. Reading a wide range of narratives representing different nationalities, styles, genders, and approaches, Horowitz demonstrates that muteness not only expresses the difficul...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1997.
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Colección: | SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Through new close readings of Holocaust fiction, this book takes the field of Holocaust Studies in an important new direction. Reading a wide range of narratives representing different nationalities, styles, genders, and approaches, Horowitz demonstrates that muteness not only expresses the difficulty in saying anything meaningful about the Holocaust - it also represents something essential about the nature of the event itself. The radical negativity of the Holocaust ruptures the fabric of history and memory, emptying both narrative and life of meaning. At the heart of Holocaust fiction lies a tension between the silence that speaks the rupture, and the narrative forms that attempt to represent, to bridge it. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 276 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-263) and index. |
ISBN: | 0585055491 9780585055497 9780791431290 0791431290 9780791431306 0791431304 1438407076 9781438407074 |