Encrypting the past

Titel: Encrypting the past : the German-Jewish Holocaust novel of the first generation / Kirstin Gwyer
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2014
Umfang: X, 244 S.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
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ISBN: 9780198709930
Lokale Klassifikation: 3 3 F ; 26 10 E ; 3 10 E ; 23 8 T 11
  • Introduction: Mapping a Blind Spot: The German-Jewish Holocaust Novel of the First Generation
  • p. 1
  • 1
  • An Absence in Context: Holocaust Representation in Testimony, Scholarship, and Literature
  • p. 11
  • Speaking the Unspeakable: Holocaust Survivor Testimony
  • p. 12
  • Speaking of Speaking the Unspeakable; The Study of Holocausr Representation
  • p. 14
  • Imagining the Unspeakable: Holocaust Fiction
  • p. 20
  • The Past as Trace: Postmodernism
  • p. 30
  • The Past as Symptom: Trauma Theory
  • p. 36
  • The Past as Legacy: 'post-memory'
  • p. 45
  • 'A real fictitious discourse': The Holocaust Novel in the First Generation
  • p. 50
  • 2
  • Writing of Broken Time(s): H. G. Adler, Eine Reise, Die unsichtbare Wand
  • p. 57
  • A Twofold Testimonial Project
  • p. 60
  • The Return of Apeiron
  • p. 69
  • Dis(ad)vantaging the Reader
  • p. 79
  • Terra Incognita
  • p. 87
  • 3
  • The Unhoused Past: Elisabeth Augustin, Auswege; Jenny Aloni, Der Wartesaal
  • p. 90
  • The Uncanny Legacy
  • p. 93
  • Losing the Plot: Elisabeth Augustin's Auswege
  • p. 98
  • Textual Labyrinths: Jenny Alont's Der Wartesaal
  • p. 117
  • 4
  • The Past Encrypted: Erich Fried, Bin Soldat und ein Mädchen
  • p. 136
  • 'To omit a word always..."
  • p. 137
  • '...to resort to obvious periphrases...'
  • p. 147
  • 'That is the tortuous method preferred...'
  • p. 153
  • '...in each of the meanderings...'
  • p. 161
  • '...of his indefatigable novel...'
  • p. 166
  • 5
  • Design from Debris: Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Tytiset, Masante
  • p. 182
  • 'Jenes große erinnerungspoetologische Projekt'?
  • p. 188
  • 'Der Schrecken [ist] eigentlich das Hauptthema'
  • p. 191
  • 'Speculations on ways to tell that story'
  • p. 195
  • 6
  • Conclusion: What Comes 'After': The 'Postmemory' Holocaust Novel
  • p. 205
  • Bibliography
  • p. 223
  • Index
  • p. 241