Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of European Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,4 (1997) 417-432
Keywords:
Litvinoff, Emanuel.
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Harris, Robert,
;
Sebald, W. G.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Examines ways in which, since the 1960s, questions about the Shoah and postwar Jewish identity have been negotiated by writers of fiction in Britain, on the background of the philosophers' debate which arose during the "Heidegger Affair". Elaborates, especially, on the arguments of Lyotard and Lacoue-Labarthe in regard to representation of the Jews after the Shoah. Discusses three works of fiction: Emanuel Litvinoff's "The Lost Europeans" (1960), Robert Harris's "Fatherland" (1992), and W.G. Sebald's "The Emigrants" (1996). The latter work was first published in German in 1993 (the author is a German now living in England). Based on these narratives, focuses on the continuing institutionalization of the Jew as "Other" in postwar Europe and in British fiction.
Note:
On Emanuel Litvinoff, Robert Harris and Winfried Georg Sebald.
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Appeared also in "The Holocaust and the Text" (2000).
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