Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Studies Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
9,2 (2002) 121-142
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Holocaust survivors
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
Abstract:
On the basis of autobiographical writings by Charlotte Delbo, Jean Amery, Ruth Klueger, Aharon Appelfeld, and Imre Kertesz, which are characterized as narratives of the destruction of the self, examines post-Holocaust definitions of the self and the subject. The problem of these writers in differentiating self and subject stems from the complete exclusion of Jews from a common world through the Nazis' total claim to meaning and reality, and from the extensive disintegration of the individual in the concentration camps. Such autobiographical writing requires self-location of the subject in history, following a radical exclusion from history, and reinscribing oneself as a subject, as well as an object, of history.
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