ISBN:
9789004316072
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2016
Series Statement:
Postmodern studies v. 53
Series Statement:
Postmodern studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Krijnen, Joost, author Holocaust impiety in Jewish American literature
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Krijnen, Joost, 1983 - Holocaust impiety in Jewish American literature
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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American literature Jewish authors
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History and criticism
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American literature History and criticism 21st century
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USA
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Literatur
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Postmoderne
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Judenvernichtung
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USA
;
Literatur
;
Postmoderne
;
Judenvernichtung
Abstract:
"The Holocaust is often said to be unrepresentable. Yet since the 1990s, a new generation of Jewish American writers have been returning to this history again and again, insisting on engaging with it in highly playful, comic, and "impious" ways. Focusing on the fiction of Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Nathan Englander, this book suggests that this literature cannot simply be dismissed as insensitive or improper. It argues that these Jewish American authors engage with the Holocaust in ways that renew and ensure its significance for contemporary generations. These ways, moreover, are intricately connected to efforts of finding new means of expressing Jewish American identity, and of moving beyond the increasingly apparent problems of postmodernism"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004316072
URL:
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