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

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

James E. Young

(Jewish literature and culture)

Indiana University Press, 1990

1st Midland Book ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-235) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Offers a fresh critical model for students of Holocaust literature and historiography.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation I. Interpreting Literary Testimony 1. On Rereading Holocaust Diaries and Memoirs 2. From Witness to Legend: Tales of the Holocaust 3. Holocaust Documentary Fiction: Novelist as Eyewitness 4. Documentary Theater, Ideology, and the Rhetoric of Face II. Figuring and Refiguring the Holocaust: Interpreting Holocaust Metaphor 5. Names of the Holocaust: Meaning and Consequences 6. The Holocaust Becomes an Archetype 7. The Holocaust Confessions of Sylvia Plath 8. When Soldier-Poets Remember the Holocaust: Antiwar Poetry in Israel III. Texts of the Holocaust: A Narrative Critique Introduction 9. Holocaust Video and Cinemagraphic Testimony: Documenting the Witness 10. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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