| Autor: |
Bos, Pascale R. |
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Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex & Race; 2007, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p97-108, 12p |
| Abstrakt: |
The Holocaust is an important motif in the art and literature by American-Jewish authors of Eastern European background who are also descendants of Holocaust survivors. Their imagining of the Holocaust is at times infused with a strong nostalgic "postmemorial" longing. While these works may present this longing in a self-conscious fashion, the ways in which they are received by an American audience without a familial connection to the Holocaust can nevertheless be problematic. For highly assimilatedAmerican Jews, these works may not facilitate any kind of a genuine encounter with the horror of the Holocaust, but instead function merely to foster a stronger fascination with the imagined more "authentic" Jewish life of the sthetl. As such, it strengthens Jewish identity on the basis of nostalgia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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