The Subject of Holocaust Fiction (Jewish Literature and Culture) - Hardcover

Budick, Emily Miller

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253016266 ISBN 13: 9780253016263

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the epistemological, psychological, and ethical issues underlying Holocaust fiction, Emily Miller Budick examines the subjective experiences of fantasy, projection, and repression manifested in Holocaust fiction and in the reader’s encounter with it. Considering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.

About this title

Book Description:

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015

About the Author:

Emily Miller Budick holds the Ann and Joseph Edelman Chair in American Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is also chair of the Department of English and Director of the Center for Literary Studies. Her major publications include Fiction and Historical Consciousness, Engendering Romance, Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation, and Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction (IUP, 2004).

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0253016266
• ISBN 13: 9780253016263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 266