Format:
X, 232 S.
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Ill.
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23 cm
ISBN:
9780786458745
Series Statement:
Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy 49
Content:
"This collection of new essays explores the use of fantastic story-telling in Holocaust literature and film. Writers such as Jane Yolen and Art Spiegelman are discussed, as well as the sci-fi television series V (1983), Stephen King's novella Apt Pupil (1982), Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Martin Scorsese's dark thriller Shutter Island (2010)"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-222) and index
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Introduction: Fantasy as testimony
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The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature: Writing and unwriting the unbearable
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Surviving the Survivor: Art Spiegelman's Maus
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The Fantastic Search for Hitler: The Fuhrer's Defense in His Own Words
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"Hidden in Plain Sight": On Holocaust Fantasy in the Metaphysical Detective Story
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The Summons of Freedom: Fantastic History in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated
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The Holocaust and Fantasy Literature. The Last of the Just: Lifting Moloch to Heaven
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The Door to Lilith's Cave: Memory and Imagination in Jane Yolen's Holocaust Novels
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Mother Goose Tales: Intergenerational Storytelling and the Holocaust in Jane Yolen's Briar Rose and Peter Rushforth's Kindergarten
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The Devil's Arithmetic and Time Travel: Truth and Memory
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(Re)Imagining the Holocaust through horror, humor and science fiction. A Holocaust education in reverse: Stephen King's "The summer of corruption: apt pupil"
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Holocaust-as-Horror, Science Fiction and the "Look" of the "Real/Reel" in V (1983)
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A Dishonest Reckoning: Play-"Acting Through" Personal Trauma and the Shoah in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010)
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Going Beyond Horror: Fantasy, Humor and the Holocaust
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781476618739
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Judenvernichtung
;
Das Fantastische
;
Literatur
;
Film
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