Millennial Memory Perspectives in Jewish American Fiction
Publisher: Olms Verlag AG, Georg
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9783487156453
Subjects: Memory in literature; American fiction, jewish authors
Description: This work is rooted in the fields of English Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, and Jewish American Studies. It examines memory representation in exemplary works published around the millennial change by third generation Jewish American writers Jonathan Safran Foer, Shalom Auslander, and Nicole Krauss. The focus lies on the latter’s work. Symbolic characters and objects connected to memory are discerned and analyzed in detail.