| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 281 pages) |
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Jewish literature and culture |
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Jewish literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Intercontextuality: Introduction -- The Gulag and Nazi camps: from improvisation to stability -- Two strands of concentration-camp literature: a brief history of an entanglement -- The Muselmann and the Dokhodiaga -- Forced labor -- The drowned and the reprieved -- On the way to resistance -- Faith -- End games -- Survivor guilt -- Concluding reflections |
| Summary |
"Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other. Toker views these narratives and texts against a background of historical information about the Soviet and Nazi regimes of repression. Writers at the center of this work include Varlam Shalamov, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Ka-Tzetnik, along with Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniya Ginzburg, and Jorge Semprún, all of whom illuminate the discussion. Toker's twofold analysis concentrates on the narrative qualities of the works as well as how each text documents the writer's experience. She provides insight into how fictionalized narrative can double as historical testimony, how references to events might have become obscure owing to the passage of time and cultural diversity of readers, and how these references form new meaning in the text. Toker, well known as a skillful interpreter of Gulag literature, offers new thinking about how Gulag literature and Holocaust literature enable a better understanding about testimony in the face of evil."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-269) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008.
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Shalamov, Varlam.
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Levi, Primo, 1919-1987
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Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
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Semprún, Jorge.
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Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001.
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| SUBJECT |
Ginzburg, Evgenii︠a︡
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Semprún, Jorge
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Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
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Levi, Primo
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Shalamov, Varlam
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Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
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Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001
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Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016 fast |
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Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008 fast |
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Shalamov, Varlam fast |
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Semprún, Jorge fast |
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Levi, Primo, 1919-1987 fast |
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Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001 fast |
| Subject |
Internment camps in literature -- 20th century
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Internment camps -- Soviet Union
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature -- History and criticism
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Political prisoners' writings, Russian -- History and criticism
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Internment camp inmates' writings -- History and criticism
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15.70 history of Europe.
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17.80 literary theory: general.
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89.21 fascism.
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89.15 communism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
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Internment camp inmates' writings
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Internment camps
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Internment camps in literature
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Political prisoners' writings, Russian
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Straflager
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Nationalsozialismus
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Konzentrationslager
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Gefangenenliteratur
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Soviet Union
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Sowjetunion
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Deutschland
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780253043542 |
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0253043549 |
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9780253043559 |
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0253043557 |
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