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German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust
P. Bos
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Description for German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust
Paperback. This study traces the changing relationship between Germans and Jews after the Holocaust through the work of authors Grete Weil and Ruth KlUger, Jewish survivors whose literary interventions in postwar Germany's discussion of its Nazi legacy enjoyed unique success in the 1980s and 1990s. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 157 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; HBL; HBWQ; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Combining cultural history and literary analysis, this study proposes a new and thought-provoking reading of the changing relationship between Germans and Jews following the Holocaust. Two Holocaust survivors whose work became uniquely successful in the Germany of the 1980s and 1990s, Grete Weil and Ruth Kluger, emerge as exemplary in their contributions to a postwar German discussion about the Nazi legacy that had largely excluded living Jews. While acknowledging that the German audience for the works of Holocaust survivors began to change in the 1980s, this study disputes the common tendency to interpret this as a sign of greater willingness ... Read more
Combining cultural history and literary analysis, this study proposes a new and thought-provoking reading of the changing relationship between Germans and Jews following the Holocaust. Two Holocaust survivors whose work became uniquely successful in the Germany of the 1980s and 1990s, Grete Weil and Ruth Kluger, emerge as exemplary in their contributions to a postwar German discussion about the Nazi legacy that had largely excluded living Jews. While acknowledging that the German audience for the works of Holocaust survivors began to change in the 1980s, this study disputes the common tendency to interpret this as a sign of greater willingness ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
157
Condition
New
Series
Studies in European Culture and History
Number of Pages
143
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349529636
SKU
V9781349529636
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About P. Bos
PASCALE BOS is Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas - Austin, USA.
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