Holocaust Drama - The Theater of Atrocity

Klappentext Placing Holocaust drama in its historical and cultural contexts, this book provides thorough analyses of over thirty seminal Holocaust plays. Zusammenfassung The Holocaust has been portrayed in fiction! film! memoirs! and poetry; however! there has been a lack of information about the theater of the Holocaust. Including thorough critical analyses of more than thirty plays! this book explores the seminal twentieth-century Holocaust dramas from the United States! Europe! and Israel. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Staging the banality of evil; 3. Culture and the Holocaust; 4. The Holocaust as literature of the body; 5. Transcending the Holocaust; 6. Marxism and the Holocaust; 7. Aryan responsibility during the Holocaust, I; 8. Aryan responsibility during the Holocaust, II; 9. Heroism and moral responsibility in the ghettoes; 10. Dignity in the concentration camps; 11. Holocaust survivors in the United States and Israel; 12. The survivor syndrome and the effects of the Holocaust on survivor families; 13. Holocaust survivor memory; 14. The Holocaust and collective memory; Bibliography.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gene A Plunka, Gene A. Plunka, Gene A. (University of Memphis) Plunka
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521494250
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49425-0
• Pagine: 454
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Modern Th; Cambridge Studies in Modern Th; Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Ebraismo