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Gender and Destiny: Women Writers and the Holocaust

Gender and Destiny: Women Writers and the Holocaust

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in Women's Studies, Book 72

Literary CriticismWomen's StudiesWorld War II

ISBN10: 0313246653
ISBN13: 9780313246654
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Oct 16 1986
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This penetrating study explores some of the critical approaches common to works written by women about an extreme situation--the Holocaust--affecting both sexes. The two novels and four fictionalized memoirs on which Heinemann's analysis is based describe experiences unique to women in the Holocaust. Among Heinemann's chief areas of focus are themes, modes of characterization, peer relations, and authenticating strategies and how they differ significantly from the ways that men have shaped their prose versions of the Holocaust. This first critical treatment of Holocaust literature from a feminist perspective effectively challenges the widespread assumption that the literature of the Holocaust reflects identical experiences for both men and women.

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