Jessica Lang

Textual Silence

Unreadability and the Holocaust

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Produktbeschreibung

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.    

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780813589916
• ISBN-10: 0813589916
• Artikelnr.: 46597143

Autorenporträt

Lang, Jessica

Inhaltsangabe

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