Subject of Holocaust Fiction

Considering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.

List of contents

Introduction
Prologue: Ghostwriting the Holocaust: The Ghost Writer, The Diary, The Kindly Ones, and Me
Section One: Psychoanalytic Listening and Fictions of the Holocaust
1. Voyeurism, Complicated Mourning, and the Fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl
2. Forced Confessions: Subject Position, Framing, and the "Art" of Spiegelman's Maus
3. Aryeh Lev Stollman's Far Euphrates: Re-picturing the Pre-Memory Moment
Section Two: Golems, Ghosts, Idols, and Messiahs: Complicated Mourning and the Inter-textual Construction of a Jewish Symptom
4. Bruno Schulz, the Messiah, and Ghost/writing the Past
5. A Jewish History of Blocked Mourning and Love
6. See Under: Mourning
Section Three: Mourning Becomes the Nations: Styron, Schlink, Sebald
7. Blacks, Jews, and Southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice
8. (Re)Reading the Holocaust from a German Point of View: Berhard Schlink's The Reader
9. Mourning and Melancholia in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz
Epilogue: Holocaust, Apartheid, and the Slaughter of Animals: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Cora Diamond's "Difficulty of Reality"
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Emily Miller Budick holds the Ann and Joseph Edelman Chair in American Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is also chair of the Department of English and Director of the Center for Literary Studies. Her major publications include Fiction and Historical Consciousness, Engendering Romance, Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation, and Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction (IUP, 2004).

Product details

• Authors: E Miller Budick, E. Miller Budick, Emily Miller Budick, Budick Emily Miller
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2015
• EAN: 9780253016263
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01626-3
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Jewish Literature and Culture; Jewish Literature and Culture; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, HISTORY / Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, Literature - Classics / Criticism