Textual silence : unreadability and the Holocaust /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lang, Jessica, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
1900-2099
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Silence in literature.
Memory in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Realism in literature.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature.
Silence dans la littérature.
Mémoire dans la littérature.
Mimêsis dans la littérature.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
Literature, Modern
Memory in literature
Mimesis in literature
Realism in literature
Silence in literature
Judenvernichtung > Motiv
Literatur
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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