Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 251-264
Keywords:
Paskaljević, Goran,
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David, Filip,
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Kad svane dan (Motion picture)
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Hidden children (Holocaust)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Serbian fiction Jewish authors
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History and criticism
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Motion pictures
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Jews Identity
Abstract:
This contribution is dedicated to Filip David’s novel The House of Remembering and Forgetting and Goran Paskaljević’s film When Day Breaks. Both the film and the novel thematize Jewish identity in relation to the trauma of the Shoah in a Serbian context drawing on the motif of the hidden child. The specific strategies used in the film and the novel include the use of fantastic elements and a highly reflexive level in David’s novel and, on the other hand, the contextualization of the motif by socially controversial questions (e.g., the stigmatizing of Roma in present-day Serbia) in the film.
DOI:
10.7767/9783205212904.251
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