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Surviving Lamentations - Catastrophe, Lament and Protest in the Afterlife of a Biblical Book (Hardcover, 2nd)
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Surviving Lamentations - Catastrophe, Lament and Protest in the Afterlife of a Biblical Book (Hardcover, 2nd)
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Most contemporary interpretations of the biblical book of
Lamentations focus on the figure of the "suffering man" as a role
model for submission in the face of God's punishment for sin. Yet
such a model offers small consolation to survivors of the Holocaust
or other mass atrocities and also ignores chapters 1 and 2 of
Lamentations, in which the personification of Zion laments her
sufferings and demands a response on behalf of her dying children.
In "Surviving Lamentations, " Tod Linafelt offers an alternative
reading of Lamentations in light of the "literature of survival"
(works written by survivors of catastrophe) as well as literary and
philosophical reflections on "the survival of literature." He
refocuses attention on the figure of Zion as a manifestation of a
basic need to give voice to suffering, and traces the afterlife of
Lamentations in Jewish literature, in which text after text
attempts to provide the response to Zion's lament that is lacking
in Lamentations itself.
Seen through Linafelt's eyes, Lamentations emerges as uncannily
relevant to contemporary discourse on survival.
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