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Holocaust Literature of the Second Generation

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  • © 2007

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  1. Marita Grimwood
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Holocaust Writing of the Second Generation

    • Marita Grimwood
    Pages 1-30

  3. The Documentary Memoir: Helen Epstein’s Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors

    • Marita Grimwood
    Pages 31-46

  4. The Family Memoir: Louise Kehoe’s In This Dark House

    • Marita Grimwood
    Pages 47-62

  5. The Graphic Memoir: Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

    • Marita Grimwood
    Pages 63-81

  6. The Fantastic Novel: Joseph Skibell’s A Blessing on the Moon

    • Marita Grimwood
    Pages 83-108

  7. The Poetic Novel: Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces

    • Marita Grimwood
    Pages 109-132

  8. Literature of the Second Generation: Who Owns the Story?

    • Marita Grimwood
    Pages 133-136

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 137-177
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About this book

Exploring five key texts from the emerging canon of second generation writing, this exciting new study brings together theories of autobiography, trauma, and fantasy to understand the how traumatic family histories are represented. In doing so, it demonstrates the continuing impact of familial and community Holocaust trauma, and the need for a precise, clearly developed theoretical framework in which to situate these works. This book will appeal to final year undergraduates and postgraduate students, as well as scholars in literary and Holocaust-related fields, and an audience with personal and professional interests in the 'second generation'.

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"This book gives a fully researched analysis of second-generation Holocaust writing. It is particularly original in its focus on psychoanalytic treatments of the children of survivors, and the mixture of primary texts analyzed constitutes a stimulating range, from memoir to fiction. In particular, Louise Kehoe's In This Dark House deserves to be better known, and Grimwood's presentation of it here excellently foregrounds how fascinating and important it is." - Sue Vice, Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield, UK

About the author

MARITA LE VAUL-GRIMWOOD holds a PhD in English from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and has taught at various universities in the UK.

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