LEADER 03790cam a2200445Ia 4500001 146825 005 20240621205326.0 008 090311s2007 xx rb 000 0 eng d 028 52 3275746 |bUMI 035 (OCoLC)ocn318363126 035 146825 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 PT9876.15.D86 |bZ7 2007 100 1 Enzie, Lauren Levine, |d1968- 245 10 Re-viewing the Holocaust through a new lens : |bmemory, language, and identity in the autobiographical texts of Cordelia Edvardson, Ruth Klüger, and Elizabeth Trahan / |cby Lauren Levine Enzie. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2007. 300 viii, 143 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2007. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-143). 520 The following examination of Cordelia Edvardson's Burned Child Seeks the Fire: A Memoir, Ruth Klüger's Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, and Elizabeth Trahan's Walking with Ghosts: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Vienna explores how three German-speaking, Jewish women remember their childhoods by creating a new lens through which the Holocaust can be viewed. The authors compel their readers to accompany them on their journeys into the past and to witness particular events by using language to zoom in and focus on childhood experiences-like a camera bringing an image closer through a telephoto lens. Their narratives remain translucent in that the reader is always aware of the authors' contemporary, critical perspective.Edvardson's, Klüger's, and Trahan's writings are similar in how they transmit memory; they break from the traditional, nineteenth-century form of autobiography by constantly interrupting the chronological framework of their narratives to oscillate between past and present as memories occur to them. This process of interweaving memory into narrative challenges readers to re-view in a new way the making of testimony about events with which they (the readers) may already be familiar. By using James Young's Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation as a theoretical foundation, I approach these narratives as a viewer with the intention of documenting the transmission of memory rather than merely examining the events that the authors recalled.These texts offer us access to an extraordinary perspective in Holocaust literature-an uninhibited view of daily life through the eyes of three young girls who came of age during the National Socialist era and who were persecuted for being Jewish. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 20 January 2012. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Edvardson, Cordelia, |d1929-2012. |tBränt barn söker sig till elden. 600 10 Klüger, Ruth, |d1931-2020. |tWeiter Leben. 600 10 Trahan, Elizabeth Welt. |tWalking with ghosts. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xPersonal narratives |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 650 0 Memory in literature. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1390283491&sid=7&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |uhttp://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib146825/3275746.pdf |zHosted by USHMM. 852 0 |bstacks |hPT9876.15.D86 |iZ7 2007 852 |bwww 852 |bebook