ISBN:
9781640141452
,
1640141456
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 218 Seiten
Year of publication:
2023
Series Statement:
Dialogue and Disjunction: studies in Jewish German literature, culture & thought
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Finch, Helen German-Jewish life writing in the aftermath of the Holocaust
DDC:
940.5
Keywords:
Deutsch
;
Literatur
;
Juden
;
Geschichte 1950-2018
Abstract:
How did German-speaking Holocaust survivors pursue literary careers in an often-indifferent postwar society? How did their literary life writings reflect their postwar struggles? This monograph focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah - H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger. It analyzes their autofictional, critical, and autobiographical works written between the early 1950s and 2015, which depict their postwar experiences of writing, publishing, and publicizing Holocaust testimony.0These case studies shed light on the devastating aftermaths of the Holocaust in different contexts. Adler depicts his attempts to overcome marginalization as a writer in Britain in the 1950s. Wander reflects on his failure to find a home either in postwar Austria or in the GDR. Hilsenrath satirizes his struggles as an emigrant to the US in the 1960s and after returning to Berlin in the 1980s. Finally, in her 2008 memoir, Ruth Klüger follows up her earlier, highly impactful memoir of the concentration camps by narrating the misogyny and antisemitism she experienced in US and German academia. Helen Finch analyzes how these under-researched texts intertwine transgressive political criticism with the shadow of trauma. Drawing on scholarship on Holocaust testimony, transnational memory, and affect theory, her book reveals new perspectives on canon formation and exclusion in postwar German literature
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 197-212
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