Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Shofar; an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
22,3 (2004) 43-55
Keywords:
Bukiet, Melvin Jules
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American fiction Jewish authors 20th century
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Jewish fiction
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Jews Fiction
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Holocaust survivors Fiction
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
Notes the emergence of post-postmodernism in literary theory and fiction, which are both represented in works by Bukiet - his essay "Crackpot Realism: Fiction for the Forthcoming Millennium" (1996) and his novel "After" (1996). This philosophy is based on a response to the Holocaust - one that does not return to a modernist understanding that was viewed as having been partly responsible for World War II, but instead, after deconstructing the values of the past, attempts to look toward a future based on the individual and the possibility of creating a world where we might get it right, a world without genocide.
Note:
Appeared also in "Unfinalized Moments" (2011) 55-67.
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