ISBN:
9780813589909
,
9780813589916
Language:
English
Pages:
220 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
DDC:
809/.93358405318
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Silence in literature
;
Memory in literature
;
Mimesis in literature
;
Realism in literature
;
Literature, Modern History and criticism 20th century
;
Literature, Modern History and criticism 21st century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Silence in literature
;
Memory in literature
;
Mimesis in literature
;
Realism in literature
;
Literature, Modern History and criticism
;
20th century
;
Literature, Modern History and criticism
;
21st century
;
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
"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 write, draw, narrate, exhibit, present, speak about that event--beginning with the very fact that so much representation exists, have been thoughtfully and determinedly examined by survivors, authors, scholars, artists and others. However, questions of how that representation is processed, or for this book, how representations are read, have received little attention. Second, the presence of the unreadable is made all the more pointed and powerful as more time imposes itself between the actual historical moment in history that Holocaust texts refer to and the act of reading. We as contemporary readers must recognize that the body of Holocaust texts is gradually taking the place of the body of the eyewitness. The sentiment expressed by so many survivors, that language is insufficient to describe their experiences, can, should be and very much is part of the reading experience. That is, a relationship exists--this book explores it--between the limitations of representation in terms of expression by an author and the limits of understanding or processing on the part of a reader. Textual Silence uncovers the literary gaps or silences within texts that impose limitations on the act of reading"--
Abstract:
"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 write, draw, narrate, exhibit, present, speak about that event--beginning with the very fact that so much representation exists, have been thoughtfully and determinedly examined by survivors, authors, scholars, artists and others. However, questions of how that representation is processed, or for this book, how representations are read, have received little attention. Second, the presence of the unreadable is made all the more pointed and powerful as more time imposes itself between the actual historical moment in history that Holocaust texts refer to and the act of reading. We as contemporary readers must recognize that the body of Holocaust texts is gradually taking the place of the body of the eyewitness. The sentiment expressed by so many survivors, that language is insufficient to describe their experiences, can, should be and very much is part of the reading experience. That is, a relationship exists--this book explores it--between the limitations of representation in terms of expression by an author and the limits of understanding or processing on the part of a reader. Textual Silence uncovers the literary gaps or silences within texts that impose limitations on the act of reading"--
Note:
Formerly CIP. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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