Kirstin Gwyer

Encrypting the Past

The German-Jewish Holocaust Novel of the First Generation

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Produktbeschreibung

Encrypting the Past puts forward the literary category of the first-generation German-Jewish Holocaust novel, showing that Holocaust literature was being written decades before postwar authors such as Sebald were credited with having found new ways of reflecting the unspeakable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9780198709930
• ISBN-10: 0198709935
• Artikelnr.: 40875573

Autorenporträt

Kirstin Gwyer is Lecturer in German at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Mapping a blind spot: the German-Jewish Holocaust novel
of the first generation
* 1: An absence in context: Holocaust representation in testimony,
scholarship, and literature
* 2: Writing of broken time(s): H.G. Adler, Eine Reise, Die unsichtbare
Wand
* 3: The unhoused past: Elisabeth Augustin, Auswege; Jenny Aloni, Der
Wartesaal
* 4: The past encrypted: Erich Fried, Ein Soldat und ein Mädchen
* 5: Design from debris: Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Tynset, Masante
* Conclusion: What comes 'after': the 'postmemory' Holocaust novel