| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) |
| Series |
Dialogue and disjunction : studies in Jewish German literature, culture, and thought |
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Dialogue and disjunction.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Holocaust memory in the new millennium-between continuity and change -- Rethinking testimony : authenticity, "travelling memories," and post-Holocaust Jewish identities in Benjamin Stein's Die Leinwand -- "Im Land der Väter und Verräter" : intertextuality, influence, and the problem of symbiosis in Maxim Biller's writing -- Contrapuntal memory, dialogism, and irony : challenges to transnationalism in Vladimir Vertlib's Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur -- From the family to the metamemorial novel : Eva Menasse's fiction -- Conclusion: The critique of the critique of representation; self- and metareflexivity in contemporary Holocaust fiction |
| Summary |
"With the disappearance of the eyewitness generation and the globalization of Holocaust memory, this book interrogates key concepts in Holocaust and trauma studies through an assessment of contemporary German-language Jewish authors"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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German literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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German literature
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German literature -- Jewish authors
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781787446731 |
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1787446735 |
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