Writing and rewriting the Holocaust : narrative and the consequences of interpretation

✍ Scribed by James Edward Young

Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 1990
Tongue: English
Leaves: 247
Series: Jewish Literature and Culture; MB Midland Book 613.
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A carefully prepared historiographical work interprets the meaning of Holocaust literature as it examines the perpetuation of Holocaust memory and understanding in several forms of media studied ... Includes an extensive bibliography of works.

✦ Table of Contents

On reading holocaust diaries and memoirs --
From witness to legend: tales of the Holocaust --
Holocaust documentary fiction: novelist as eyewitness --
Documentary theater, ideology, and the rhetoric of fact --
Names of the Holocaust: meaning and consequences --
The Holocaust becomes an archetype --
The Holocaust confessions of Sylvia Plath --
When soldier-poets remember the Holocaust: antiwar poetry in Israel --
Holocaust video and cinemagraphic testimony: documenting the witness --
The texture of memory: Holocaust memorials and meaning.

✦ Subjects

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

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