Magic realism in Holocaust literature
Subtitle: troping the traumatic real
By: Jenni Adams
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780230280298
Subjects: Grotesque in literature; Marvelous, The, in literature; Fantasy in literature; Realism in literature; Magic in literature; Supernatural in literature; Magic realism (Literature); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Other titles: Troping the traumatic real
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The dream of the end of the world: magic realism, knowledge, and Holocaust history in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is illuminated; title: Magic realism and dialogic postmemory: David Grossman's See under: love; title: Trauma and the grotesque body: D.M. Thomas's The white hotel; title: The light of dead stars: magic realist time in André Schwarz-Bart's The last of the just; title: 'Into eternity's certain breadth': ambivalent escape in Markus Zusak's The book thief; title: Conclusion.