Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
25,1-2 (2019) 43-58
Schlagwort(e):
Foer, Jonathan Safran,
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American fiction Jewish authors
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History and criticism
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors
Kurzfassung:
This article examines how Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel Everything is Illuminated, as a post-trauma narrative that challenges its own limits of representation, attempts to make the reader "access" the Holocaust through a form of "traumatic realism", to take Michael Rothberg's concept. This analysis focuses on the figures of silence and absence through the study of place as a "non-lieu de mémoire", before exploring the way in which traumatic memory is performed through testimony and its narrative fragmentation. The article concludes by discussing how this literary aesthetics is a way for the author to respond to an ethics of (re)presentation.
DOI:
10.1080/17504902.2018.1472875
URL:
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