Textual Silence : : Unreadability and the Holocaust / / Jessica Lang.
There are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself is a barrier between the author and the read...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 10 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Readability and Unreadability: A Fractured Dialogue
- Part I. Generational Differences in Holocaust Literature
- 2. Before, During, and After: Reading and the Eyewitness
- 3. Reading to Belong: Second-Generation and the Audience of Self
- 4. The Third Generation's Holocaust: The Story of Time and Place
- Part II. Pushed to the Edges: The Holocaust in American Fiction
- 5. American Fiction and the Act of Genocide
- 6. Receding into the Distance: The Holocaust as Background
- Afterword: Reading the Fragments of Memory
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index