Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Michigan Quarterly Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
39,3 (2000) 647-660
Keywords:
Frank, Anne,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
Abstract:
Discusses themes of hiding in relation to Anne Frank, on both the physical level (the secret annex where she and seven others hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam) and the symbolic level (her diary). The diary is problematic for several reasons. The fact that the diary was broken off before Anne was deported to Bergen-Belsen, where she died, has left readers ignorant not only of her specific fate but also of the deaths of thousands of Jewish children during the Holocaust. Another problem is connected with one way in which the diary helped Anne. The diary functioned for her partly as a refuge; she could explore herself as she developed into adolescence. Some readers have identified with her, as an adolescent, a budding writer, etc., to the extent of focusing elsewhere than on the Holocaust; some, like Chilean Jewish poet Marjorie Agosín, have appropriated her image for their own personal or political ends. Five pages of Anne's diary, which had been cut out, will be restored in new editions; these will provide a more complex picture of Anne, and another part of her will emerge from concealment.
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