Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew (Jewish Literature and Culture) - Softcover

Gubar, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025321887X ISBN 13: 9780253218872

Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS), 2006

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A sensitive and superb treatment of Holocaust literature; the author . . . treats Holocaustart with sensitivity, introspection, respect, and humanity in a clear, readable, and elegant prose. Gubar's book will prove to be a seminal work in Holocaust studies. * H-Holocaust *

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It is hard to imagine [Susan Gubar] bettering her previous work, but this is a culmination.... It will become a classic for the way it is written, for its sense of what poetry in general can do, and for its comprehensive focus on Holocaust representation." -Geoffrey Hartman In this pathbreaking study, Susan Gubar demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. From the 1960s to the present, as the Shoah receded into a more remote European past, North American and British writers struggled to keep its memory alive. Many contemporary writers, among them Anthony Hecht, Gerald Stern, Sylvia Plath, William Heyen, Michael Hamburger, Irena Klepfisz, Adrienne Rich, Jorie Graham, Jacqueline Osherow, and Anne Michaels, grappled with personal and political, ethical and aesthetic consequences of the disaster. Through confessional verse and reinventions of the elegy, as well as documentary poems about photographs and trials, poets serve as proxy-witnesses of events that they did not experience firsthand. By speaking about or even as the dead, these men and women of letters elucidate what it means to cite, reconfigure, consume, or envy the traumatic memories of an earlier generation. As the testimonies of eyewitnesses come to a close, this moving meditation by a major feminist critic finds in poetry a stimulant to empathy that can help us take to heart what we forget at our own peril.

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• Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 025321887X
• ISBN 13: 9780253218872
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340