Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps : An Intercontexual Reading /

Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other. Toker views these narratives and texts against a background of historical informatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toker, Leona (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, > 1918-2008.
Wiesel, Elie, > 1928-2016.
Levi, Primo, > 1919-1987
Semprún, Jorge.
Ginzburg, Evgenii︠a︡.
Ka-tzetnik 135633, > 1909-2001.
Shalamov, Varlam.
Levi, Primo.
Straflager.
Nationalsozialismus
Konzentrationslager.
Gefangenenliteratur
Concentration camps in literature.
Concentration camps.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
Prisoners' writings, Soviet.
89.15 communism.
89.21 fascism.
17.80 literary theory: general.
15.70 history of Europe.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature > History and criticism.
Prisoners' writings, Soviet > History and criticism.
Internment camps > Soviet Union.
Internment camps in literature > 20th century.
Sowjetunion.
Deutschland
Soviet Union.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intercontextuality: Introduction
  • The Gulag and Nazi camps: from improvisation to stability
  • Two strands of concentration-camp literature: a brief history of an entanglement
  • The Muselmann and the Dokhodiaga
  • Forced labor
  • The drowned and the reprieved
  • On the way to resistance
  • Faith
  • End games
  • Survivor guilt
  • Concluding reflections.

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