Living in the Presence of an Absence. The Puzzling Holocaust Legacy of the American Post-Holocaust Generation
This article deals with second-generation Holocaust literature, i.e. writings belonging to the generation born after the Holocaust and grown up in its aftermath. Specifically I dwell on two considerably different Jewish-American novels, which reflect two different natures of Holocaust inheritance an...
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| description | This article deals with second-generation Holocaust literature, i.e. writings belonging to the generation born after the Holocaust and grown up in its aftermath. Specifically I dwell on two considerably different Jewish-American novels, which reflect two different natures of Holocaust inheritance and, hence, two distinct paths, featuring second-generation Holocaust literature: Thane Rosenbaum’s Second-Hand Smoke (1999) and Irene Dische’s Pious Secrets (1991). My understanding of these narratives is grounded in the cultural distinction between particularist and universalist second-generation Holocaust writers outlined by Alan Berger in Children of Job, American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust (1997). The argument that I present interprets Rosenbaum’s novel as a particularist depiction of the Holocaust legacy, whereas Dische’s book is associated to a universalist perspective towards this event and its inheritance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-045bb4167e9e4be59e1dc231c5e91ab22022-12-21T23:32:21ZdeuUniversità degli Studi di TorinoRiCognizioni2384-89872015-06-012310.13135/2384-8987/925730Living in the Presence of an Absence. The Puzzling Holocaust Legacy of the American Post-Holocaust GenerationAlice Balestrino0Università degli Studi di TorinoThis article deals with second-generation Holocaust literature, i.e. writings belonging to the generation born after the Holocaust and grown up in its aftermath. Specifically I dwell on two considerably different Jewish-American novels, which reflect two different natures of Holocaust inheritance and, hence, two distinct paths, featuring second-generation Holocaust literature: Thane Rosenbaum’s Second-Hand Smoke (1999) and Irene Dische’s Pious Secrets (1991). My understanding of these narratives is grounded in the cultural distinction between particularist and universalist second-generation Holocaust writers outlined by Alan Berger in Children of Job, American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust (1997). The argument that I present interprets Rosenbaum’s novel as a particularist depiction of the Holocaust legacy, whereas Dische’s book is associated to a universalist perspective towards this event and its inheritance.https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/925Holocaust LiteratureTrauma StudiesJewish-American LiteratureMemorializationThane RosenbaumSecond-Hand Smoke |
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| title | Living in the Presence of an Absence. The Puzzling Holocaust Legacy of the American Post-Holocaust Generation |
| title_full | Living in the Presence of an Absence. The Puzzling Holocaust Legacy of the American Post-Holocaust Generation |
| title_fullStr | Living in the Presence of an Absence. The Puzzling Holocaust Legacy of the American Post-Holocaust Generation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Living in the Presence of an Absence. The Puzzling Holocaust Legacy of the American Post-Holocaust Generation |
| title_short | Living in the Presence of an Absence. The Puzzling Holocaust Legacy of the American Post-Holocaust Generation |
| title_sort | living in the presence of an absence the puzzling holocaust legacy of the american post holocaust generation |
| topic | Holocaust Literature Trauma Studies Jewish-American Literature Memorialization Thane Rosenbaum Second-Hand Smoke |
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