The Holocaust Novel

The Holocaust Novel

by Efraim Sicher
The Holocaust Novel

The Holocaust Novel

by Efraim Sicher

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Overview

The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to this historical tragedy. This student-friendly volume answers a dire need for readers to understand a genre in which boundaries and often blurred between history, fiction, autobiography, and memoir. Other essential features for students here include 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415967976
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/06/2005
Series: Genres in Context
Edition description: ANN
Pages: 292
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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 andStructure in the Prose of Isaac Babel, Jews in RussianLiterature After the October Revolution, and BreakingCrystal: Writing and Memory After Auschwitz.

Table of Contents

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"
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