Reshaping the Holocaust: Australian fiction, an Australian past, and the reconfiguration of "traditional" Holocaust narratives
TitreReshaping the Holocaust: Australian fiction, an Australian past, and the reconfiguration of "traditional" Holocaust narratives
Auteur
Call numberS940.5318/005
N° d'objet05556jb
Lieu de publicationLondon, England
EditeurRoutledge
Année de publication
2016
Dimensionspp 65-83
MatérielArticle
NotesArticle from the journal 'Holocaust studies: a journal of culture and history',vol 22, issue 1, pp65-83
Description
Some Australian fiction promotes a unique stance in regard to the Holocaust and the Third Reich. Reading Helen Demidenko/Darville's "The hand that signed the paper" and James McQueen's "White light", the author shows that a cultural naivety exists in Australia, due to historical and cultural influences since the Second World War. These factors have influenced the country's memorializatiion of, and response to, the Holocaust