Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Remembering for the Future; Working Papers and Addenda
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1989) 1529-1539
Keywords:
Hitler, Adolf, Fiction
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Gass, William H., Criticism and interpretation
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DeLillo, Don Criticism and interpretation
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Plaut, W. Gunther,
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National socialism Fiction
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Jews in literature
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American literature 20th century
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Canadian literature Jewish authors
Abstract:
Analyzes how popular works of fiction on the Holocaust and on Nazism erode or trivialize the historical memory of the Nazi crimes against the Jews. Notes that readers are often not discerning enough to tell fact from fiction, and even scholars have been led astray (as in the case of the recent Hitler diary hoax), Relates to the confusion between fact and fiction in a recent novel by W. Gunther Plaut, "The Letter" (1986), which posits the existence of a document written by Hitler ordering implementation of the Final Solution. Focuses on the depiction of an American historian obsessed with the subject of Hitler and Nazism in two recent fictional works - "The Tunnel" by William Gass (not yet published in book form, but excerpts of which have appeared in journals), and "White Noise" by Don DeLillo.
Note:
Appeared also in "Holocaust and Genocide Studies" 3,3 (1988) 323-336.
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