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Second-Generation Holocaust Literature - Legacies of Survival and Perpetration (Hardcover)
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Second-Generation Holocaust Literature - Legacies of Survival and Perpetration (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Expands the definition of second-generation literature to include
texts written from the point of view of the children of Nazi
perpetrators. Among historical events of the 20th century, the
Holocaust is unrivaled as the subject of both scholarly and
literary writing. Literary responses include not only thousands of
autobiographical and fictional texts written by survivors, but
also, more recently, works by writers who are not survivors but
nevertheless feel compelled to write about the Holocaust. Writers
from what is known as the second generation have produced texts
that express their feeling of being powerfully marked by events of
which they have had no direct experience. This book expands the
commonly-used definition of second-generation literature, which
refers to texts written from the perspective ofthe children of
survivors, to include texts written from the point of view of the
children of Nazi perpetrators. With its innovative focus on the
literary legacy of both groups, it investigates how
second-generation writers employsimilar tropes of stigmatization to
express their troubled relationships to their parents' histories.
Through readings of nine American, German, and French literary
texts, Erin McGlothlin demonstrates how an anxiety with
signification is manifested in the very structure of
second-generation literature, revealing the extent to which the
literary texts themselves are marked by the continuing aftershocks
of the Holocaust. Erin McGlothlin is Assistant Professor of German
at Washington University in St. Louis.
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