Rachael McLennan

Representations of Anne Frank in American Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores portrayals of Anne Frank in American literature and culture, and examines how artistic representations of Anne Frank over the past fifty years reflect changing American responses to the Holocaust. In addition to analysing American responses to the Holocaust, the author examines texts which invoke Anne Frank for the purposes of exploring what it means to be Jewish; a woman; a teenager; a writer. She considers the pedagogical intent of these texts, together with the often problematic ethics involved. This book examines theoretical issues in the fields of Holocaust studies, with a particular focus on representation, the transnational, and the interdisciplinary.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780415724708
• ISBN-10: 0415724708
• Artikelnr.: 43679657

Autorenporträt

Rachael McLennan is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Telling Stories in New Ways? Anne Frank in American
Literature
Chapter 1: Prosthetic Fictions: Philip Roth's Anne Franks
Chapter 2: The Banality of Anne Frank: Open Secrets in Norma Rosen's
Touching Evil (1969) and Joyce Carol Oates's Mother, Missing (2005)
Chapter 3: 'Cheating History': Anne Frank and the Photograph in Anne
Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) and Elinor Lipman's The
Inn at Lake Devine (1998)
Chapter 4: Skewed Views: What Anne Frank Teaches in Stephanie S. Tolan's
The Liberation of Tansy Warner (1980) and John Green's The Fault in Our
Stars (2012)
Chapter 5: Uprooting the Lost Child: Cultivating Identifications in C.K.
Williams's "A Day for Anne Frank" (1968), Marjorie Agosin's Dear Anne Frank
(1998), and Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude (1982)
Chapter 6: In Other Words: Anne Frank and the Alternate (Personal) History
in Ellen Feldman's The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank (2005) and Jillian Cantor's
Margot (2013)
Chapter 7: 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank': Holocaust
Impiety and Competitive Memory in Shalom Auslander's Hope: A Tragedy
(2012) and Nathan Englander's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne
Frank" (2012)
Chapter 8: States of Confusion: Anne Frank and America in Michelle Cliff's
Abeng (1984) and "A Visit to the Anne Frank House" (1985)

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Introduction: Telling Stories in New Ways? Anne Frank in American Literature

Chapter 1: Prosthetic Fictions: Philip Roth's Anne Franks

Chapter 2: The Banality of Anne Frank: Open Secrets in Norma Rosen's Touching Evil (1969) and Joyce Carol Oates's Mother, Missing (2005)

Chapter 3: 'Cheating History': Anne Frank and the Photograph in Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) and Elinor Lipman's The Inn at Lake Devine (1998)

Chapter 4: Skewed Views: What Anne Frank Teaches in Stephanie S. Tolan's The Liberation of Tansy Warner (1980) and John Green's The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

Chapter 5: Uprooting the Lost Child: Cultivating Identifications in C.K. Williams's "A Day for Anne Frank" (1968), Marjorie Agosin's Dear Anne Frank (1998), and Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude (1982)

Chapter 6: In Other Words: Anne Frank and the Alternate (Personal) History in Ellen Feldman's The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank (2005) and Jillian Cantor's Margot (2013)

Chapter 7: 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank': Holocaust Impiety and Competitive Memory in Shalom Auslander's Hope: A Tragedy (2012) and Nathan Englander's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank" (2012)

Chapter 8: States of Confusion: Anne Frank and America in Michelle Cliff's Abeng (1984) and "A Visit to the Anne Frank House" (1985)

Rezensionen

This is a ground-breaking book that pulls off the rare trick of being both theoretically savvy and entertaining and accessible. Moving beyond the polemical and parochial discourses in which the legacy of Anne Frank has too often been mired, McLennan provides a series of nuanced discussions of the ways in which Anne Frank has been represented in a diverse range of material, from canonical texts such as Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer through to John Green's The Fault in Our Stars.

-- David Brauner, University of Reading, UK