In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself forms barriers between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts—and that these barriers, or silences, are not a lack of substance, but an essential characteristic of the genre.
In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself forms barriers between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts—and that these barriers, or silences, are not a lack of substance, but an essential characteristic of the genre.
JESSICA LANG is an associate professor of English at CUNY-Baruch College in New York, where she is the founding Newman Director of the Wasserman Jewish Studies Center.
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Introduction 1 1 Readability and Unreadability: A Fractured Dialogue 9 Part I Generational Differences in Holocaust Literature 2 Before, During, and After: Reading and the Eyewitness 35 3 Reading to Belong: Second-Generation and the Audience of Self 58 4 The Third Generation’s Holocaust: The Story of Time and Place 87 Part II Pushed to the Edges: The Holocaust in American Fiction 5 American Fiction and the Act of Genocide 119 6 Receding into the Distance: The Holocaust as Background 155 Afterword: Reading the Fragments of Memory 175 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 181 Bibliography 199 Index 209
Introduction 1 1 Readability and Unreadability: A Fractured Dialogue 9 Part I Generational Differences in Holocaust Literature 2 Before, During, and After: Reading and the Eyewitness 35 3 Reading to Belong: Second-Generation and the Audience of Self 58 4 The Third Generation’s Holocaust: The Story of Time and Place 87 Part II Pushed to the Edges: The Holocaust in American Fiction 5 American Fiction and the Act of Genocide 119 6 Receding into the Distance: The Holocaust as Background 155 Afterword: Reading the Fragments of Memory 175 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 181 Bibliography 199 Index 209
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