A house of words: Jewish writing, identity and memory
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1. Verfasser: Ravvin, Norman (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press c1997
Schriftenreihe:McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-187) and index
Introduction: this world and others -- pt. 1. What sort of home is the past? -- Forethought: building a house of words -- Eli Mandel's family architecture: building a house of words on the prairies -- Writing around the Holocaust: uncovering the ethical centre of Leonard Cohen's Beautiful losers -- Taking the victims' side: Mordecai Richler's response to the Holocaust in St. Urbain's horseman -- pt. 2. Strange presences -- Forethought: facing up to the past -- Strange presences on the family tree: the unacknowledged literary father in Philip Roth's The Prague orgy -- Philip Roth's literary ghost: rereading Anne Frank -- Ghost writing: Chava Rosenfarb's The tree of life
pt. 3. Confronting apocalypse -- Forethought: on refusing to end -- Apocalypse stalled: the role of traditional archetype and symbol in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The day of the locust -- An end to endings: Saul Bellow's anti-apocalyptic novel -- pt. 4. The collaborator -- Forethought -- Warring with shadows: the Holocaust and the academy -- Conclusion: in search of a multicultural tradition
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