Magic Realism in Holocaust Literature [electronic resource] : Troping the Traumatic Real /
Adams, J.author.
A major contribution to Holocaust studies, the book examines the capacity of supernatural elements to dramatize the ethical and representational difficulties of Holocaust fiction. Exploring texts by such writers as D.M. Thomas and Markus Zusak it will appeal to scholars and students of Holocaust literature, magic realism, and contemporary fiction.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The dream of the end of the world: magic realism, knowledge, and Holocaust history in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is illuminated -- Magic realism and dialogic postmemory: David Grossman's See under: love -- Trauma and the grotesque body: D.M. Thomas's The white hotel -- The light of dead stars: magic realist time in André Schwarz-Bart's The last of the just -- 'Into eternity's certain breadth': ambivalent escape in Markus Zusak's The book thief -- Conclusion.
A major contribution to Holocaust studies, the book examines the capacity of supernatural elements to dramatize the ethical and representational difficulties of Holocaust fiction. Exploring texts by such writers as D.M. Thomas and Markus Zusak it will appeal to scholars and students of Holocaust literature, magic realism, and contemporary fiction.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
World War, 1939-1945.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
Cultural Theory.