Magic realism in Holocaust literature : troping the traumatic real / Jenni Adams

Publication | Library Call Number: PN56.H55 A33 2011

Variant Title: Troping the traumatic real
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Adams, Jenni, 1984-
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-201) and index
Language: English
External Link: Table of contents

Physical Description: vii, 206 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction
The dream of the end of the world: magic realism, knowledge, and Holocaust history in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is illuminated
Magic realism and dialogic postmemory: David Grossman's See under: love
Trauma and the grotesque body: D.M. Thomas's The white hotel
The light of dead stars: magic realist time in André Schwarz-Bart's The last of the just
'Into eternity's certain breadth': ambivalent escape in Markus Zusak's The book thief
Conclusion.
ISBN: 9780230280298
0230280293 (alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-201) and index.
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Magic realism (Literature)
Magic in literature.
Realism in literature.
Marvelous, The, in literature.
Fantasy in literature.
Grotesque in literature.
Supernatural in literature.
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