Ned Curthoys

The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age

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Produktbeschreibung

"Explores influential historical fictions about the Holocaust that deploy narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman in which a perpetrator or complicit protagonist interrogates their own past and questions ideologies responsible for the catastrophic genocide and its legacy"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9798765103883
• Artikelnr.: 72234061

Autorenporträt

Ned Curthoys is Senior Lecturer in English and Literary Studies at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of The Legacy of Liberal Judaism: Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt's Hidden Conversation (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Memory as reinvention in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
2. Visionary disenchantment: Accessing second sight in The Kindly Ones
3. An exemplary Bildungsheld: Bringing diaspora home in Daniel Stein
Interpreter
4. Unofficial education and the promotion of active readership in two
Holocaust themed novels for children: Hitler's Daughter and The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas
5. The Counterfeiters as Bildungsfilm: Allegorizing Jewish history
6. A protagonist for dark times: Repurposing memory and the future of civil
courage in Margarethe von Trotta's biopic Hannah Arendt
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index