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Textual silence : unreadability and the Holocaust /

"There are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself is a barrier between the author and th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lang, Jessica, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1: Readability and Unreadability: A Fractured Dialogue
  • Part I: Generational Differences in Holocaust Literature. 2: Before, During and After: Reading and the Eyewitness
  • 3: Reading to Belong: Second Generation and the Audience of Self
  • 4: The Third-Generation's Holocaust: The Story of Time and Place
  • Part II: Pushed to the Edges: The Holocaust in American Fiction. 5: American Fiction and the Act of Genocide
  • 6: Receding into the Distance: The Holocaust as Background
  • 7: Afterwords: Reading the Fragments of Memory.