Title: Women's Holocaust writing
First published: 1999
Description: Women's Holocaust Writing, the first book of literary criticism devoted to American Holocaust writing by and about women, extends Holocaust and literary studies by examining women's artistic representations of female Holocaust experiences. Beyond racial persecution, women suffered gender-related oppression and coped with the concentration camp universe in ways consistent with their prewar gender socialization. Through close, insightful reading of fiction S.

Lillian Kremer explores Holocaust representations in works distinguished by the power of their literary expression and attention to women's diverse experiences. She draws upon history, psychology, women's studies, literary analysis, and interviews with authors to compare writing by eyewitnesses working from memory with that by remote "witnesses through the imagination."
Subjects: Jewish women, Jewish women in the Holocaust, Judaism and literature, Jewish authors, Intellectual life, History and criticism, American literature, Women authors, Women and literature, Jews in literature, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature, Personal narratives, History
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PN56.H55 K74 1999