Presence and absence of the belated witness in two short stories by Mavis Gallant

This essay extends Michael Levine’s theory of the ‘belated witness’ as an approach to the question of how Holocaust survival is represented in literature, by considering how the absence of such a witness is made perceptible in two stories by Mavis Gallant. Much of Gallant’s short fiction critically...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joseph Ballan
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Donner Institute 2017-06-01
Series:Nordisk Judaistik
Online Access:https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/65914