Textual Silence : Unreadability and the Holocaust /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lang, Jessica, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literatur
Judenvernichtung > Motiv
Silence in literature.
Realism in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Memory in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
Litterature > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Realisme dans la litterature.
Mimêsis dans la litterature.
Memoire dans la litterature.
Silence dans la litterature.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la litterature.
Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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