- Summary
- "'Imagining the Unimaginable' examines popular fiction's treatment of the Holocaust in the dystopian and alternate history genres of speculative fiction. It surveys a range of British and American authors, from science fiction pulp to Pulitzer Prize winners, building on scholarship across disciplines, including Holocaust studies, trauma studies, and science fiction studies. The conventional discourse around the Holocaust is one of the unapproachable, unknowable, and the unimaginable - beyond language, beyond art, beyond thought. The 'othering' of the event has spurred the phenomenon of non-realist Holocaust literature, engaging with speculative fiction and its history of the uncanny, the grotesque, and the inhuman. This book examines the most common forms of nonmimetic Holocaust fiction while firmly positioning these forms within a broader pattern of non-realist engagements with the Holocaust."--taken from back cover.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Morgan, Glyn, author.
- Published
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
©2020
- Contents
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Introduction : Fictionalizing the Holocaust
Precursors and early texts : 'Swastika Night' (1937) and the myth of silence
Problematizing history : 'The Man in the High Castle' (1962), 'Fatherland' (1992) and 'Making History' (1996)
The damned and the saved : 'The Boys from Brazil' (1976), 'The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.' (1981), 'Hope : A Tragedy' (2012) and 'The Yiddish Policeman's Union' (2007)
Reimagining horror : 'The Plot Against America' (2004), 'Farthing' (2006), 'A Man Lies Dreaming' (2014) and 'J' (2014)
Epilogue : Further fabulation.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Fictionalizing the Holocaust -- Precursors and early texts : 'Swastika Night' (1937) and the myth of silence -- Problematizing history : 'The Man in the High Castle' (1962), 'Fatherland' (1992) and 'Making History' (1996) -- The damned and the saved : 'The Boys from Brazil' (1976), 'The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.' (1981), 'Hope : A Tragedy' (2012) and 'The Yiddish Policeman's Union' (2007) -- Reimagining horror : 'The Plot Against America' (2004), 'Farthing' (2006), 'A Man Lies Dreaming' (2014) and 'J' (2014) -- Epilogue : Further fabulation.
