Holocaust literature : a history and guide
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Diamant, Naomi, author.
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PN56.H55 R67 2012
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PN56.H55 R67 2012
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xii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-340) and index.
Description
"What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, tales of individual survival in hiding? Is it the same everywhere: in the West as in the East, in Australia as in the Americas, in poetry as in prose? Is this literature sacred and sui generis, or can it be studied in the light of other literatures? What of the perpetrators and bystanders, the hidden children, the children of Holocaust survivors: Do they speak with the same authority? What works of Holocaust literature will be read a hundred years from now--and why? Here, for the first time and told from beginning to end, is an historical survey of Holocaust literature in all genres, countries, and major languages. Beginning in wartime, it proceeds from the literature of mobilization and mourning in the Free World to the vast and varied literature produced in the Nazi-occupied ghettos, the bunkers and places of hiding, the transit and concentrations camps. Within weeks of the liberation, in displaced persons camps, a new memorial and testamentary literature begins to take shape. Moving from Europe to Israel, the U.S., and beyond, the authors situate the writings by real and proxy witnesses within three distinct postwar periods: a period of "communal memory," still internal and internecine; a period of "provisional memory" in the '60s and '70s that witnesses the birth of a self-conscious Holocaust genre; to the period of "authorized memory" in which we live today, following the collapse of the Soviet Union (1989-91), and the opening of the US Holocaust Museum (1993). Twenty book covers - first editions in their original languages - and an eminently readable guide to the "first hundred books" together show the multilingual scope, historical depth, the moral and artistic range of this extraordinary body of writing."--Publisher's website.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Roskies, D. G., & Diamant, N. (2012). Holocaust literature: a history and guide . Brandeis University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Roskies, David G., 1948- and Naomi, Diamant. 2012. Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Roskies, David G., 1948- and Naomi, Diamant. Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2012.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Roskies, D. G. and Diamant, N. (2012). Holocaust literature: a history and guide. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Roskies, David G., and Naomi Diamant. Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide Brandeis University Press, 2012.
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