The Holocaust and the Text
Speaking the Unspeakable
Published on 10. November 1999
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-333-73886-3 (ISBN)
Description
Whether through its frequent presence in the news, or in history books, documentaries and fiction, the Holocaust is an event that refuses to go away. It is both a point of reference in the past and a point of moral interdiction and imperative in the present. Yet how is the modern reader to imagine the unimaginable and relate it to the present? The essays in this book examine the problems that underly the representation in literature of these poignant and horrific events.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
notes
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
331 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-73886-3 (9780333738863)
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11/1999
Palgrave Macmillan
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Persons
ANDREW LEAK is Senior Lecturer in the French Department at University College London. GEORGE PIAZIS is a Lecturer in the Department of French at University College London.
Content
Notes on Contributors - Introduction - Holocaust-genres and the Turn to History; B.Lang - Holocaust Writing in Context: Italy 1945 - 1947; R.Gordon - Representations of the Holocaust in Women's Testimony; A.Hardman - Between Repulsion and Attraction: George Steiner's Post-Holocaust Fiction; B.Cheyette - The Holocaust as Seen Through the Eyes of Children ;A.Reiter - From Behind the Bars of Quotation Marks: Emmanuel Levina's (Non)-Representation of the Holocaust; R.Eaglestone - Idioms for the Unrepresentable: Post-war Fiction and the Shoah; A.Parry - The Demidenko Affair and Contemporary Holocaust Fiction; S.Vice - Is Aharon Appelfeld an Holocaust Writer?; L.I.Yudkin - The Mirror of Memory: Patrick Modiano's La Place de L'Etoile and Dora Bruder; S.Khalifa - 'Il n'y a qu'une Esphce Humaine': Between Duras and Antelme; M.Crowley