Narratives of Annihilation, Confinement, and Survival : : Camp Literature in a Transnational Perspective /

Narratives of Annihilation, Confinement, and Survival : : Camp Literature in a Transnational Perspective / / ed. by Anja Tippner, Anna Artwińska.

The concept of “camp narratives” rather than “Holocaust narratives” or “Gulag narratives” is based on the assumption that literary accounts of camp experiences share common traits, aesthetically as well as thematically. The book presents readings of camp literature that underscore the similarities b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Artwińska, Anna,
Beganović, Davor,
Bischoff, Doerte,
Cesereanu, Ruxandra,
Kratochvil, Alexander,
Laanes, Eneken,
Morawiec, Arkadiusz,
Rothstein, Anne-Berenike,
Sandomirskaja, Irina,
Segler-Messner, Silke,
Sucharski, Tadeusz,
Tippner, Anja,
Toker, Leona,
HerausgeberIn:
Artwińska, Anna,
Tippner, Anja ,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Culture & Conflict , 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Camp Narratives in a Comparative Transnational Perspective
  • I: Comparing Camp Narratives: Theoretical Approaches
  • Towards a Literary History of Concentration Camps: Comparative or “Entangled”?
  • Worlds Apart? Cross-mapping Camp Literature from the Gulag and Nazi Concentration Camps
  • II: Defining Camp Literatures: Overview
  • Transcultural Memorial Forms in Post-Soviet Estonian Narratives of the Gulag
  • Representations of the Gulag and Methods of Resistance: Romanian Detention Memoirs
  • Polish Literature of Soviet Prison Camps: An Outline of Issues
  • Between the Sun and the Stone – The Naked Body: Yugoslav “Re-education” Camps in Literary Representations
  • Presence through Absence: The Aesthetics of Blank Space in French Holocaust Literature and Film
  • Konzentrationslager in Polish Literature: From Metaphorization to Metaphor
  • III: Witnessing and Remembering Camp Experiences: Comparative Case Studies
  • The Grey Zones of Witnessing: Levi, Améry, Shalamov
  • The Ghetto of Leningrad, the Siege of Theresienstadt: A Comparative Reading of Enforced Communities
  • Uncanny Contingencies: Translation, Comparison, and Compassion in Herta Müller’s The Hunger Angel
  • A Communist Woman in the Gulag: Gender, Ideology, and Limit-Experience in Ginzburg and Budzyńska
  • Trauma Narration as Adventure Fiction: Ivan Bahrianyj’s Novel The Hunters and the Hunted
  • About the Authors
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Topics

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