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Author Budick, E. Miller, author.

Title The subject of Holocaust fiction / Emily Miller Budick.

Publication Info. Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Jewish literature and culture
Jewish literature and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Voyeurism, complicated mourning, and the fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl -- Forced confessions: subject position, framing, and the "Art" of Spiegelman's Maus -- Aryeh Lev Stollman's The Far Euphrates: re-picturing the pre-memory moment -- Bruno Schulz, The Messiah, and ghost/writing the past -- A Jewish history of blocked mourning and love -- See under: mourning -- Blacks, Jews, and southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- (re)reading the Holocaust from a German point of view: Bernhard Schlink's The Reader -- Mourning and melancholia in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz -- Holocaust, apartheid, and the slaughter of animals: J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Cora Diamond's "difficulty of reality."
Summary Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the epistemological, psychological, and ethical issues underlying Holocaust fiction, Emily Miller Budick examines the subjective experiences of fantasy, projection, and repression manifested in Holocaust fiction and in the reader's encounter with it. Considering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.
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Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Budick, E. Miller. Subject of Holocaust fiction 9780253016300 (DLC) 2014041962 (OCoLC)892162533
ISBN 9780253016324 (electronic book)
0253016320 (electronic book)
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