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Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature: Memory, Identity, (Post-)Postmodernism

Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature: Memory, Identity, (Post-)Postmodernism

Krijnen, Joost

Hardcover

Literary CriticismJudaismHolocaust

ISBN10: 9004253238
ISBN13: 9789004253230
Publisher: Brill
Published: May 12 2016
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
The Holocaust is often said to be unrepresentable. Yet since the 1990s, a new generation of Jewish American writers have been returning to this history again and again, insisting on engaging with it in highly playful, comic, and impious ways. Focusing on the fiction of Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Nathan Englander, this book suggests that this literature cannot simply be dismissed as insensitive or improper. It argues that these Jewish American authors engage with the Holocaust in ways that renew and ensure its significance for contemporary generations. These ways, moreover, are intricately connected to efforts of finding new means of expressing Jewish American identity, and of moving beyond the increasingly apparent problems of postmodernism.

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