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  1. Magic realism in Holocaust literature
    troping the traumatic real
    Author: Adams, Jenni
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

    Includes bibliographical references and index A major contribution to Holocaust studies, the book examines the capacity of supernatural elements to dramatize the ethical and representational difficulties of Holocaust fiction. Exploring texts by such... more

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    Includes bibliographical references and index A major contribution to Holocaust studies, the book examines the capacity of supernatural elements to dramatize the ethical and representational difficulties of Holocaust fiction. Exploring texts by such writers as D.M. Thomas and Markus Zusak it will appeal to scholars and students of Holocaust literature, magic realism, and contemporary fiction

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1283317745; 9780230280298; 9780230307353; 9781283317740
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Magic in literature; Realism in literature; Marvelous, The, in literature; Fantasy in literature; Grotesque in literature; Supernatural in literature; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Magic realism (Literature)
    Scope: VII, 206 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-201) and index

    Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Dream of the End of the World: Magic Realism and Holocaust History in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated; 2 Magic Realism and Dialogic Postmemory: David Grossman's See Under: Love; 3 Trauma and the Grotesque Body: D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel; 4 The Light of Dead Stars: Magic Realist Time in André Schwarz-Bart's The Last of the Just; 5 `Into Eternity's Certain Breadth': Ambivalent Escape in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;