Textual Silence : Unreadability and the Holocaust /
"Explores the tension between the will and desire to read and our ultimate inability to do so as it applies to Holocaust literature. I have chosen to focus on Holocaust literature first, perhaps more than any other literary genre or category, questions about Holocaust representation--how we wri...
Autor principal: | |
---|---|
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2017]
|
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
Temas: | |
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.