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Author Bigsby, C. W. E.

Title Remembering and imagining the Holocaust : the chain of memory / Christopher Bigsby
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 407 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in modern theatre
Cambridge studies in modern theatre.
Contents The past remembered -- W.G. Sebald: an act of restitution -- Rolf Hochhuth: breaking the silence -- Peter Weiss: the investigation -- Arthur Miller: the rememberer -- Anne Frank: everybody's heroine -- Jean Améry: home and language -- Primo Levi: from the darkness to the light -- Elie Wiesel: to forget is to deny -- Tadeusz Borowski: the world of stone -- Memory theft -- Coda
Summary An exploration of the work of dramatists and writers connected by the idea of memory and its relationship to the Holocaust, this work begins with a discussion of W.G. Sebald and his examinations of the Holocaust and its interpretation in diaries, memoirs, drama and literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-393) and index
Notes English
SUBJECT Sebald, W. G. 1944-2001 gnd
Hochhuth, Rolf 1931-2020 gnd
Weiss, Peter 1916-1982 gnd
Miller, Arthur 1915-2005 gnd
Frank, Anne 1929-1945 gnd
Améry, Jean 1912-1978 gnd
Levi, Primo 1919-1987 gnd
Wiesel, Elie 1928-2016 gnd
Borowski, Tadeusz 1922-1951 gnd
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism
Memory in literature.
Autobiographical memory.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Autobiographical memory
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
Memory in literature
Judenvernichtung
Literatur
Erinnerung
Gedenken
Literatur -- Judenvernichtung.
Judenvernichtung -- Literatur.
Judenvernichtung -- Selbstbiographie -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Selbstbiographie -- Judenvernichtung -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
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