Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust - Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation

far outranks the multitude of new titles on Holocaust topics.-Choice

List of contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation

I. Interpreting Literary Testimony

1. On Rereading Holocaust Diaries and Memoirs

2. From Witness to Legend: Tales of the Holocaust

3. Holocaust Documentary Fiction: Novelist as Eyewitness

4. Documentary Theater, Ideology, and the Rhetoric of Face

II. Figuring and Refiguring the Holocaust: Interpreting Holocaust Metaphor

5. Names of the Holocaust: Meaning and Consequences

6. The Holocaust Becomes an Archetype

7. The Holocaust Confessions of Sylvia Plath

8. When Soldier-Poets Remember the Holocaust: Antiwar Poetry in Israel

III. Texts of the Holocaust: A Narrative Critique

Introduction

9. Holocaust Video and Cinemagraphic Testimony: Documenting the Witness

10. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Emma Young

Summary

Presents a critical model for students of Holocaust literature and historiography.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Young, James Edward Young, Young Emma
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.1988
• EAN: 9780253206138
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20613-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 233 mm x 158 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Illustrations: 12 b&w photos
• Series: Jewish Literature & Culture (P; Jewish Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous