Awards
- Winner of A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015.
Overview
Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the epistemological, psychological, and ethical issues underlying Holocaust fiction, Emily Miller Budick examines the subjective experiences of fantasy, projection, and repression manifested in Holocaust fiction and in the reader's encounter with it. Considering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.
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Author: Emily Miller Budick , E Miller Budick
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9780253016263
ISBN 10: 0253016266
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 20 May 2015
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
"Introduction Prologue: Ghostwriting the Holocaust: The Ghost Writer, The Diary, The Kindly Ones, and Me Section One: Psychoanalytic Listening and Fictions of the Holocaust 1. Voyeurism, Complicated Mourning, and the Fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl 2. Forced Confessions: Subject Position, Framing, and the ""Art"" of Spiegelman's Maus 3. Aryeh Lev Stollman's Far Euphrates: Re-picturing the Pre-Memory Moment Section Two: Golems, Ghosts, Idols, and Messiahs: Complicated Mourning and the Inter-textual Construction of a Jewish Symptom 4. Bruno Schulz, the Messiah, and Ghost/writing the Past 5. A Jewish History of Blocked Mourning and Love 6. See Under: Mourning Section Three: Mourning Becomes the Nations: Styron, Schlink, Sebald 7. Blacks, Jews, and Southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice 8. (Re)Reading the Holocaust from a German Point of View: Berhard Schlink's The Reader 9. Mourning and Melancholia in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz Epilogue: Holocaust, Apartheid, and the Slaughter of Animals: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Cora Diamond's ""Difficulty of Reality"" Notes Bibliography Index"
Reviews
This volume presents ethical, moral criticism at its best: beautifully written, entirely accessible, profound in its explications of well-known texts that are here given new readings, and comprehensive in its attention to other critics. -Anita Norich, University of Michigan This is an important contribution to literary studies... Highly recommended. -Choice E. M. Budick's The Subject of Holocaust Fiction is a timely addition to the steadily growing academic canon on Holocaust fiction. -Literature and History
This volume presents ethical, moral criticism at its best: beautifully written, entirely accessible, profound in its explications of well-known texts that are here given new readings, and comprehensive in its attention to other critics. Anita Norich, University of Michigan
Author Information
Emily Miller Budick holds the Ann and Joseph Edelman Chair in American Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is also chair of the Department of English and Director of the Center for Literary Studies. Her major publications include Fiction and Historical Consciousness, Engendering Romance, Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation, and Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction (IUP, 2004).
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