Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Studies in American Jewish Literature
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,2 (1992) 150-161
Keywords:
Karmel, Ilona,
;
Ozick, Cynthia.
;
Piercy, Marge.
;
Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
American literature History and criticism
;
Jewish women in literature
;
Jewish women in the Holocaust
Abstract:
Analyzes four works of fiction - Susan Fromberg Schaeffer's "Anya", Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl", Marge Piercy's "Gone to Soldiers", and Ilona Karmel's "An Estate of Memory" - dealing with the experiences of Jewish women in the Holocaust. Among the recurrent themes are sexual abuse, clandestine childbirth, concealment of children, mothers witnessing the murder of their children, separation of mothers and daughters to enhance the child's chances of survival, women's resistance through bonding, passing as Christians, postwar parental attitudes influenced by wartime trauma. Jewish women were doubly cursed in the Nazi universe, as racial pariahs and as sexual victims.
Note:
On Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Cynthia Ozick, Marge Piercy and Ilona Karmel.
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