Witness Through the Imagination: Jewish American Holocaust Literature

✍ Scribed by S Lillian Kremer

Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 395
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Criticism of Holocaust literature is an emerging field of inquiry, and as might be expected, the most innovative work has been concentrated on the vanguard of European and Israeli Holocaust literature. Now that American fiction has amassed an impressive and provocative Holocaust canon, the time is propitious for its evaluation. Witness Through the Imagination presents a critical reading of themes and stylistic strategies of major American Holocaust fiction to determine its capacity to render the prelude, progress, and aftermath of the Holocaust.

The unifying critical approach is the textual explication of themes and literary method, occasional comparative references to international Holocaust literature, and a discussion of extra-literary Holocaust sources that have influenced the creative writers' treatment of the Holocaust universe.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Scars of Outrage: The Holocaust in The Victim and Mr. Sammler's Planet
Chapter Two: From Buchenwald to Harlem: The Holocaust Universe of The Pawnbroker
Chapter Three: Seekers and Survivors: The Holocaust-Haunted Fiction of Bernard Malamud
Chapter Four: Chaim Rumkowski and the Lodz Ghetto in Leslie Epstein's King of the Jews
Chapter Five: The Trial of the Damned: Richard Elman's Holocaust Trilogy
Chapter Six: Kaddish and Resurrection: Isaac Bashevis Singer's Holocaust Memorial
Chapter Seven: The Dybbuk of All the Lost Dead: Cynthia Ozick's Holocaust Fiction
Chapter Eight: Eternal Faith, Eternal People: The Holocaust and Redemption in Arthur A. Cohen's In the Days of Simon Stern
Chapter Nine: Eternal Light: The Holocaust and the Revival of Judaism and Jewish Civilization in the Fiction of Chaim Potok
Chapter Ten: Nazism on Trial: The Holocaust Fiction of George Steiner
Conclusion
Notes
Index

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