Voicing the void: muteness and memory in Holocaust fiction
TitleVoicing the void: muteness and memory in Holocaust fiction
Author
Call number808.93358/0021
Object number03664
PublisherState University of New York Press
Year of publication
1997
Physical description276p.,index,bibliography
MaterialBook
Series titleSuny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
ISBN0791431304
Description
Argues that the central issues in Holocaust historiography and literary criticism and are not simply prompted by fictionality of imaginative literature - they are already embedded as self-critique in the fictional narratives. Focusing on the problem of muteness helps unfold the ambivalences and ambiguities that shape the way we read Holocaust fiction, and the way we think about the Holocaust itself