Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust
Subtitle: displaced witnesses
By: Phyllis Lassner.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780230202580
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Jews, German -- England -- Biography; Jews -- England -- Biography; Refugee children -- England -- Biography; Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
Genres: Biography.
Description: In its analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, by showing how these writers complicate theories of trauma and memory by using fantasy and the Gothic as a response to silence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Other people's houses : remembering the Kindertransport; title: Karen Gershon : stranger from the Kindertransport; title: Dramas of the Kindertransport and its aftermath; title: The transgenerational haunting of Anne Karpf and Lisa Appignanesi; title: Elaine Feinstein's Holocaust imagination; title: Displaced testimony : the dramas of Julia Pascal and Sue Frumin.