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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Holocaust Literature"”.
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Aesthetic Shapes of Holocaust Literature and Pedagogical Applications
… three narratives that are part of the genre of Holocaust Literature: Elie Wiesel’s Night, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the way in which each of these texts contributes to collective Holocaust memory and traumatic literature: as a memoir, graphic …
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When Facts Become Figures: Figurative Dynamics in Youth Holocaust Literature
… of figurative language and imagery in youth literature, illustrating how the Holocaust has been and continues to be represented and manipulated. Youth Holocaust literature, often a young person’s first introduction to the events of the Nazi genocide, exposes the ways we imagine, narrate, …
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The Translation From Memory to Postmemory: The Mother-Daughter Dialogue in Post-Holocaust Literature
"All of these texts evoke layers of translation in the communicative process between the generations. The daughters help their mothers unlock and vocalize the past, and in a second step often attempt to adopt and integrate their mother's stories into their own cultural-political framework of …
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Imagining the Worst: Ladislav Fuks' Contributions to Holocaust Fiction
… He is a valuable contributor not only to the Holocaust Literature genre, but also to film and literature in general. His two English-translated works, Mr. Theodore Mundstock and The Cremator, as well as the film adaptation of The Cremator, examine the role imagination can play in art that …
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Barbed Wire Fever: On Seeking and Providing Refuge (Creative Non-Fiction)
… explores my father’s memories of his years as a Holocaust survivor and refugee during the Second World War, my memory of how my father tried to articulate those memories, and how non-refugees responded to and shaped my father’s narrative. The first section of the thesis is a critical essay titled …
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The Continual Trauma of Survivorship: the Historical Complexities of Time Constructs in Relation to Holocaust Diaries, Memoirs, and Testimonies
… this case study reveals that the term ‘post-Holocaust’ does not provide an accurate depiction of what it means to have survived the Holocaust. It is by using an interdisciplinary approach and the compilation of Holocaust literature that the thesis of ‘post- Holocaust’ does not and cannot …
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A Close Encounter with Death: Narration in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief
… <em>The Book Thief</em> (2005) in terms of the Holocaust, its generic hybridity, and its crossover readership for child and adult audiences, I offer the first narratological reading of its unusual narrator: Death. This reading focuses on the rhetorical strategies underlying Death’s contradictory …
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The German Jewish Post-Holocaust Novel: Narrative and a Literary Language for Loss
… how a constellation of German Jewish post-Holocaust novels confronts the paradox of recovering and recuperating lost stories of Holocaust victims. I analyze how works by Edgar Hilsenrath, Jurek Becker, and Fred Wander reveal a preoccupation with the innumerable stories and testimonies of …
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A representação do holocausto em Ilse Losa
O Holocausto enquanto facto histórico de proporções sem precedente na história da Humanidade tornou-se um tema literário largamente abordado, inicialmente pelos sobreviventes, que sentiram a necessidade de partilhar a sua experiência, tendo o tema posteriormente também captado o interesse doutros …