In its rigorously researched analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature. Addressing the question ofΒ whyΒ the Holocaust isΒ still being written, this study brings together Kindertransport
Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust: Displaced Witnesses
β Scribed by Phyllis Lassner (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 235
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Other Peopleβs Houses: Remembering the Kindertransport....Pages 19-47
Karen Gershon: Stranger from the Kindertransport....Pages 48-74
Dramas of the Kindertransport and Its Aftermath....Pages 75-102
The Transgenerational Haunting of Anne Karpf and Lisa Appignanesi....Pages 103-128
Elaine Feinsteinβs Holocaust Imagination....Pages 129-155
Displaced Witnesses: Julia Pascalβs and Sue Fruminβs Holocaust Dramas....Pages 156-185
Back Matter....Pages 186-225
β¦ Subjects
Poetry and Poetics; Fiction; Twentieth-Century Literature; European Literature; History of World War II and the Holocaust; Gender Studies
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