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Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to this historical tragedy. This student-friendly volume answers a dire need for readers to understand a genre in which boundaries and often blurred between history, fiction, autobiography, and memoir.... Read more
1. About the Holocaust Novel 2. Survivors: "If It Is a Novel, It Is Not About Majdanek..." 3. The Jewish American Post-Holocaust Novel: Imagining the Unimaginable 4. Holocaust Fictions, or Fictional Holocausts 5. The "Second Generation": The Vicarious Witness 6. Postmodernist "Holocausts"
Biography
Efraim Sicher is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He is author of Beyond Marginality: Anglo-Jewish Literature after the Holocaust, Style and Structure in the Prose of Isaac Babel, Jews in Russian Literature After the October Revolution, and Breaking Crystal: Writing and Memory After Auschwitz.
"Efraim Sicher's The Holocaust Novel is a most comprehensive, intelligent, and empathetic study of the literature representing the murder of the six million. As such it is also a history of the cultural reception of the Holocaust over six decades and innumerable national literary traditions. Readable and accessible, it is also an extremely useful handbook of "Holocaust" culture." -- Sander L. Gilman, Weidenfeld Professor of European Comparative Literature, St. Anne's College, Oxford University
