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Representations of Anne Frank in American Literature - In Different Rooms (Paperback)
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Representations of Anne Frank in American Literature - In Different Rooms (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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This book explores portrayals of Anne Frank in American literature,
where she is often invoked, if problematically, as a means of
encouraging readers to think widely about persecution, genocide,
and victimisation; often in relation to gender, ethnicity, and
race. It shows how literary representations of Anne Frank in
America over the past 50 years reflect the continued dominance of
the American dramatic adaptations of Frank's Diary in the 1950s,
and argues that authors feel compelled to engage with the
problematic elements of these adaptations and their iconic power.
At the same time, though, literary representations of Frank are
associated with the adaptations; critics often assume that these
texts unquestioningly perpetuate the problems with the adaptations.
This is not true. This book examines how American authors represent
Frank in order to negotiate difficult questions relating to
representation of the Holocaust in America, and in order to
consider gender, coming of age, and forms of inequality in American
culture in various historical moments; and of course, to consider
the ways Frank herself is represented in America. This book argues
that the most compelling representations of Frank in American
literature are alert to their own limitations, and may caution
against making Frank a universal symbol of goodness or setting up
too easy identifications with her. It will be of great interest to
researchers and students of Frank, the Holocaust in American
fiction and culture, gender studies, life writing, young adult
fiction, and ethics.
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