Second-generation Holocaust literature : legacies of survival and perpetration /

Among historical events of the 20th century, the Holocaust is unrivaled as the subject of both scholarly and literary writing. Literary responses include not only thousands of autobiographical and fictional texts written by survivors, but also, more recently, works by writers who are not survivors b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGlothlin, Erin Heather
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2006.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Temas:
1900-1999
German literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Children of Holocaust survivors, Writings of.
Children of Nazis, Writings of.
Littérature allemande > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature.
Écrits d'enfants de survivants de l'Holocauste.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
German literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "A tale repeated over and over again": Polyidentity and narrative paralysis in Thane Rosenbaum's Elijah visible
  • "In Auschwitz we didn't wear watches": Marking time in Art Spiegelman's Maus
  • "Because we need traces": Robert Schindel's Gebürtig and the crisis of the second-generation witness
  • Documenting absence in Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder and Katja Behrens's "Arthur Mayer or the silence"
  • "Under a false name": Peter Schneider's Vati and the misnomer of genre
  • My mother wears a Hitler mustache: Marking the mother in Niklas Frank and Joshua Sobol's Der Vater
  • The future of Väterliteratur: Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser and Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders
  • Conclusion: The "Glass wall": Marked by an invisible divide.

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