Efraim Sicher

The Holocaust Novel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Holocaust literature is recognized as a major postwar literary genre, but there is little consensus as to its generic definition. As an addition to the "Genres in Context" series, "The Holocaust Novel" provides the first comprehensive generic study of Holocaust literature. This student-friendly volume answers a dire need for readers to understand a genre in which boundaries are often blurred between history fiction, autobiography and memoir. "The Holocaust Novel" offers a student guide to holocaust literature, along with an annotated bibliography, chronology and further reading list. Major texts discussed include such widely taught works as "Night Maus", "The Shawl", "Schindler's List", "Sophie's Choice", "White Noise" and "Time's Arrow".

Produktdetails

• Genres in Context
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RT797X
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780415967976
• ISBN-10: 041596797X
• Artikelnr.: 20775251

Autorenporträt

Efraim Sicher is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He is author of Beyond Marginality:Anglo-Jewish Literature after the Holocaust,Style and Structure in the Prose of Isaac Babel, Jews in RussianLiterature After the October Revolution, and BreakingCrystal: Writing and Memory After Auschwitz .

Inhaltsangabe

1. About the Holocaust Novel  2. Survivors: "If It Is a Novel, It Is Not About Majdanek..."  3. The Jewish American Post-Holocaust Novel: Imagining the Unimaginable  4. Holocaust Fictions, or Fictional Holocausts  5. The "Second Generation": The Vicarious Witness  6. Postmodernist "Holocausts"

Rezensionen

"Efraim Sicher's The Holocaust Novel is a most comprehensive, intelligent, and empathetic study of the literature representing the murder of the six million. As such it is also a history of the cultural reception of the Holocaust over six decades and innumerable national literary traditions. Readable and accessible, it is also an extremely useful handbook of "Holocaust" culture." -- Sander L. Gilman, Weidenfeld Professor of European Comparative Literature, St. Anne's College, Oxford University