Narrating the Holocaust / Andrea Reiter ; translated by Patrick Camiller.

By:

Reiter, Andrea, 1957-2018

Contributor(s):

European Jewish Publications Society

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Continuum guide to Holocaust studiesPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum in association with the European Jewish Publication Society, 2005, ©2000.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 311 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781847144225
1847144225

Uniform titles:

Auf dass sie entsteigen der Dunkelheit. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Narrating the Holocaust.DDC classification:

809.93358 22

LOC classification:

PN56.H55 R4513 2005eb

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Contents:

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Communication; 2 Genre; 3 Coming to terms with experience through language; 4 The narrative of lived reality; 5 Text and meaning: from experience to report; 6 Summary; Epilogue: the Holocaust seen through the eyes of children; Notes on the concentration camp authors; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Index of concentration camp authors

Summary: Annotation In this literary study of memoirs describing at first hand the horrors of German concentration camps, the principal question asked is: How did the survivors find the words to talk about experiences hitherto unknown, even unimaginable? Beyond being a mere analysis of discourse, Narrating the Holocaust reflects the situations in camp that triggered these responses, and shows how the professional authors adapted certain literary genres (e.g. the travel story, the Hassidic tale) to serve as models for communication, while the vast majority who were not trained as writers merely used the form of the report. A comparison between these memoirs and the more frequently discussed camp novel identifies the different narrative strategies by which the two are determined. Most of the 130 texts discussed here were published in German between l934 and the present; some famous Italian, French and Polish texts have also been included for comparison.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-308) and index.

Translated from the German.

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Annotation In this literary study of memoirs describing at first hand the horrors of German concentration camps, the principal question asked is: How did the survivors find the words to talk about experiences hitherto unknown, even unimaginable? Beyond being a mere analysis of discourse, Narrating the Holocaust reflects the situations in camp that triggered these responses, and shows how the professional authors adapted certain literary genres (e.g. the travel story, the Hassidic tale) to serve as models for communication, while the vast majority who were not trained as writers merely used the form of the report. A comparison between these memoirs and the more frequently discussed camp novel identifies the different narrative strategies by which the two are determined. Most of the 130 texts discussed here were published in German between l934 and the present; some famous Italian, French and Polish texts have also been included for comparison.

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