UID:
almafu_9959236712902883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 248 p. )
ISBN:
1-280-42416-8
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9786610424160
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0-8032-0528-7
Content:
"Language has frequently been at the center of discussions about Holocaust writing. Yet English, a primary language of neither the persecutors nor the victims, has generally been viewed as marginal to the events of the Holocaust. Alan Rosen argues that this marginal status profoundly affects writing on the Holocaust in English and fundamentally shapes our understanding of the events. Sounds of Defiance chronicles the evolving status of English in writing about the Holocaust, from the Second World War to the 1990s." "Each chapter highlights a representative work from a different genre - psychology, sociology, memoir, tales, fiction, and film - and examines the special position of English with regard to the Holocaust, supported by references to the role of other languages, including Hebrew, Yiddish, and German."--Jacket.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Evidence of trauma : English as perplexity in David Boder's Topical autobiographies -- An entirely different culture : English as translation in John Hersey's The wall -- What does he speak?: English as mastery in Ruth Chatterton's Homeward borne -- Please speak English : babbling in Philip Roth's "Eli, the fanatic" -- From law to outlaw : borrowed English in Edward Wallant's The pawnbroker -- Law's languages : Hannah Arendt's mother and other tongues -- Say "good boy" : legitimizing English in Sidney Lumet's The pawnbroker -- Cracking her teeth : broken English in Cynthia Ozick's fiction and essays -- The language of dollars : English as intruder in Yaffa Eliach's Hasidic tales of the Holocaust -- The language of survival : English as metaphor in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Eaten away by silence : English as elegy in Anne Michaels's Fugitive pieces.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8032-3962-9
Language:
English
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