Textual silence: unreadability and the Holocaust
"There are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself is a barrier between the author and th...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "There are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself is a barrier between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts...and that this barrier is not a lack of substance, but a defining characteristic of the genre. Holocaust texts, which encompass works as diverse as memoirs, novels, poems, and diaries, are traditionally characterized by silences the authors place throughout the text, both deliberately and unconsciously. While a reader may have the desire and will to comprehend the Holocaust, the presence of "textual silence" is a force that removes the experience of genocide from the reader's analysis and imaginative recourse. Lang defines silences as omissions that take many forms, including the use of italics and quotation marks, ellipses and blank pages in poetry, and the presence of unreliable narrators in fiction. While this limits the reader's ability to read in any conventional sense, these silences are not flaws. They are instead a critical presence that forces readers to acknowledge how words and meaning can diverge in the face of events as unimaginable as those of the Holocaust"... "Explores the tension between the will and desire to read and our ultimate inability to do so as it applies to Holocaust literature. I have chosen to focus on Holocaust literature first, perhaps more than any other literary genre or category, questions about Holocaust representation...how we write, draw, narrate, exhibit, present, speak about that event...beginning with the very fact that so much representation exists, have been thoughtfully and determinedly examined by survivors, authors, scholars, artists and others. However, questions of how that representation is processed, or for this book, how representations are read, have received little attention. Second, the presence of the unreadable is made all the more pointed and powerful as more time imposes itself between the actual historical moment in history that Holocaust texts refer to and the act of reading. We as contemporary readers must recognize that the body of Holocaust texts is gradually taking the place of the body of the eyewitness. The sentiment expressed by so many survivors, that language is insufficient to describe their experiences, can, should be and very much is part of the reading experience. That is, a relationship exists...this book explores it...between the limitations of representation in terms of expression by an author and the limits of understanding or processing on the part of a reader. Textual Silence uncovers the literary gaps or silences within texts that impose limitations on the act of reading"... |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 220 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780813589909 9780813589916 |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
INTRODUCTION
1: READABILITY AND UNREADABILITY: A FRACTURED DIALOGUE
PART I: GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN HOLOCAUST LITERATURE 2: BEFORE,
DURING AND AFTER: READING AND THE EYEWITNESS 3: READING TO BELONG:
SECOND GENERATION AND THE AUDIENCE OF SELF 4: THE THIRD-GENERATIONAS
HOLOCAUST: THE STORY OF TIME AND PLACE
PART II: PUSHED TO THE EDGES: THE HOLOCAUST IN AMERICAN FICTION 5:
AMERICAN FICTION AND THE ACT OF GENOCIDE 6: RECEDING INTO THE DISTANCE:
THE HOLOCAUST AS BACKGROUND 7: AFTERWORDS: READING THE FRAGMENTS OF
MEMORY
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
CONTENTS
Introduction i
1 Readability and Unreadability: A Fractured Dialogue 9
PART !
GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES
IN HOLOCAUST LITERATURE
2 Before, During, and After: Reading and the Eyewitness 35
3 Reading to Belong: Second-Generation and the Audience
of Self 58
4 The Third Generations Holocaust: The Story of Time
and Place 87
PART I!
PUSHED TO THE EDGES: THE HOLOCAUST
IN AMERICAN FICTION
5 American Fiction and the Act of Genocide 119
6 Receding into the Distance: The Holocaust
as Background 155
Afterword: Reading the Fragments of Memory 17s
Acknowledgments 179
Notes 181
Bibliography 199
Index 209
here are thousands of books that represent the
Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading
these works convey the events of genocide to those
who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary
scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself is a
barrier between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts—
and that this barrier is a defining characteristic of the genre.
Holocaust texts—works as diverse as memoirs, novels,
poems, and diaries—are traditionally characterized by
silences authors place throughout the text, both deliberately
and unconsciously. While a reader may have the desire and
will to comprehend the Holocaust, the presence of “textual
silence” is a force that removes the experience of genocide
from the readers imagination. Lang defines silences as
omissions that include the use of italics and quotation marks,
ellipses and blank pages, and unreliable narrators. While this limits the reader s ability to
read in any conventional sense, these silences are not flaws. They are a critical presence
that forces readers to acknowledge how words and meaning diverge in the face of events
as unimaginable as those of the Holocaust.
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| spelling | Lang, Jessica 1978- Verfasser (DE-588)132569973 aut Textual silence unreadability and the Holocaust Jessica Lang New Brunswick, Camden ; Newark, New Jersey ; London Rutgers University Press [2017] © 2017 220 Seiten Illustrationen txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index "There are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself is a barrier between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts...and that this barrier is not a lack of substance, but a defining characteristic of the genre. Holocaust texts, which encompass works as diverse as memoirs, novels, poems, and diaries, are traditionally characterized by silences the authors place throughout the text, both deliberately and unconsciously. While a reader may have the desire and will to comprehend the Holocaust, the presence of "textual silence" is a force that removes the experience of genocide from the reader's analysis and imaginative recourse. Lang defines silences as omissions that take many forms, including the use of italics and quotation marks, ellipses and blank pages in poetry, and the presence of unreliable narrators in fiction. While this limits the reader's ability to read in any conventional sense, these silences are not flaws. They are instead a critical presence that forces readers to acknowledge how words and meaning can diverge in the face of events as unimaginable as those of the Holocaust"... "Explores the tension between the will and desire to read and our ultimate inability to do so as it applies to Holocaust literature. I have chosen to focus on Holocaust literature first, perhaps more than any other literary genre or category, questions about Holocaust representation...how we write, draw, narrate, exhibit, present, speak about that event...beginning with the very fact that so much representation exists, have been thoughtfully and determinedly examined by survivors, authors, scholars, artists and others. However, questions of how that representation is processed, or for this book, how representations are read, have received little attention. Second, the presence of the unreadable is made all the more pointed and powerful as more time imposes itself between the actual historical moment in history that Holocaust texts refer to and the act of reading. We as contemporary readers must recognize that the body of Holocaust texts is gradually taking the place of the body of the eyewitness. The sentiment expressed by so many survivors, that language is insufficient to describe their experiences, can, should be and very much is part of the reading experience. That is, a relationship exists...this book explores it...between the limitations of representation in terms of expression by an author and the limits of understanding or processing on the part of a reader. Textual Silence uncovers the literary gaps or silences within texts that impose limitations on the act of reading"... Geschichte 1900-2000 LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish / bisacsh Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature Silence in literature Memory in literature Mimesis in literature Realism in literature Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism Literature, Modern 21st century History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd rswk-swf Judenvernichtung Motiv (DE-588)4122228-3 gnd rswk-swf Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 s Judenvernichtung Motiv (DE-588)4122228-3 s DE-604 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, epub 978-0-8135-8992-3 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, Web PDF 978-0-8135-8993-0 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, Mobi 978-0-8135-8994-7 LoC Fremddatenuebernahme application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029887699&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung UB Augsburg - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029887699&sequence=000003&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung UB Augsburg - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029887699&sequence=000004&line_number=0003&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Klappentext |
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| title | Textual silence unreadability and the Holocaust |
| title_auth | Textual silence unreadability and the Holocaust |
| title_exact_search | Textual silence unreadability and the Holocaust |
| title_full | Textual silence unreadability and the Holocaust Jessica Lang |
| title_fullStr | Textual silence unreadability and the Holocaust Jessica Lang |
| title_full_unstemmed | Textual silence unreadability and the Holocaust Jessica Lang |
| title_short | Textual silence |
| title_sort | textual silence unreadability and the holocaust |
| title_sub | unreadability and the Holocaust |
| topic | LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish / bisacsh Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature Silence in literature Memory in literature Mimesis in literature Realism in literature Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism Literature, Modern 21st century History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd Judenvernichtung Motiv (DE-588)4122228-3 gnd |
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