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Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence: Francophone Jewish Poetry of the Shoah, 1939-2008

Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence: Francophone Jewish Poetry of the Shoah, 1939-2008

Mole, Gary D.

Hardcover

Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, Book 259

Religion General Judaism

ISBN10: 1636676146
ISBN13: 9781636676142
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Mar 8 2024
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In this groundbreaking study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Shoah, Gary D. Mole engages with an extensive corpus of poetry by more than forty poets, all of whom were active after the war in France, Belgium, Switzerland, or Quebec but who came originally from Eastern Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East. Some were adolescents or adults during the war, either in hiding, interned or deported, first-hand witnesses to the Nazi persecution of European Jews. Others were hidden children, survivors writing of their buried traumatic experiences many years later. And a second-generation born after the war became postmemory proxy witnesses. Broadly chronological in approach, the book places the poetry in its various social, political, and historical contexts, underlines the specific geographical locations of the authors, and offers close thematic, formal, stylistic, and linguistic readings of the selected texts, highlighting some of the major aesthetic and ethical problems raised. Lucidly written, this book throws critical light, for scholars and nonspecialists, on a rich and unjustly neglected corpus, arguing convincingly for its inclusion in current debates on French-language literary representations of the Shoah and more widely in what is commonly referred to as Holocaust Poetry.

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