Modernist conjectures: A mainstream in European literature, 1910-1940

IBSCH, Elrud

Fokkema, Douwe Wessel

Kunne-Ibsch, Elrud

Literature & Fiction

C. Hurst

Die Studie beschreibt die Entwicklung von der Autobiographie zum (postmodernen) Experiment in der literarischen Darstellung der Shoah. Bei der Interpretation der Zeugnisse der Überlebenden wird die selektive Erinnerungsarbeit anhand repräsentativer Texte aus verschiedenen Literaturen im Vergleich herausgestellt. Für das Experiment ist eine Anzahl von teilweise kontrovers diskutierten Romanen (von jüdischen und nichtjüdischen Autoren, u. a. von Hilsenrath, Gary, Grossman, Amis, Thomas, Ransmayr) beispielhaft. Der jungen jüdischen Literatur in den Niederlanden ist ein eigenes Kapitel gewidmet.

Die Shoah erzählt: Zeugnis und Experiment in der Literatur (Conditio Judaica, 47) (German Edition)

History

Europe

de Gruyter

<p>The traumatic experiences of persecution and genocide have changed traditional views of literature. The discussion of historical truth versus aesthetic autonomy takes an unexpected turn when confronted with the experiences of the victims of the Holocaust, the Gulag Archipelago, the Cultural Revolution, Apartheid and other crimes against humanity. The question is whether - and, if so, to what extent - literary imagination may depart from historical truth.In general, the first reactions to traumatic historical experiences are autobiographical statements, written by witnesses of the events. However, the second and third generations, the sons and daughters of the victims as well as of the victimizers, tend to free themselves from this generic restriction and claim their own way of remembering the history of their parents and grandparents. They explore their own limits of representation, and feel free to use a variety of genres; they turn to either realist or postmodernist, ironic or grotesque modes of writing.</p>

The Conscience of Humankind: Literature and Traumatic Experiences (Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association "Literature As Cultural Memory")

History & Criticism

Brill/Rodopi

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