Language:
French
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Bulletin Trimestriel de la Fondation Auschwitz
Angaben zur Quelle:
80-81 (2003) 91-105
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Jewish women in the Holocaust
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Holocaust survivors
Abstract:
Discusses literary representation of the Shoah in works by Ruth Klüger, Sarah Kofman, Esther Dischereit, and Cécile Wajsbrot, written in Germany and France in the 1980s-90s. Contends that Dischereit, who represents a younger generation of Jewish female writers, starts from Dan Diner's "negative symbiosis" between Jews and Germans in her treatment of the Shoah. Klüger and Kofman, born in the 1930s, go beyond the dichotomy of victim/perpetrator, opening the horizon of reflection to include all Europeans as inheritors of Auschwitz. Wajsbrot, though born in 1954, is closer in her thinking to Klüger and Kofman than to writers of her own generation.
Note:
Appeared previously in "Zeitschrift für Germanistik" 12 (2002).
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