Gulag literature and the literature of Nazi camps : an intercontexual reading
Leona Toker
Bok Engelsk 2019 · Criticism, interpretation, etc.
| Omfang | xii, 281 sider
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| Opplysninger | Intercontextuality: Introduction -- The Gulag and Nazi camps: from improvisation to stability -- Two strands of concentration-camp literature: a brief history of an entanglement -- The Muselmann and the Dokhodiaga -- Forced labor -- The drowned and the reprieved -- On the way to resistance -- Faith -- End games -- Survivor guilt -- Concluding reflections. - Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other. Toker views these narratives and texts against a background of historical information about the Soviet and Nazi regimes of repression. Writers at the center of this work include Varlam Shalamov, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Ka-Tzetnik, along with Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniya Ginzburg, and Jorge Semprún, all of whom illuminate the discussion. Toker's twofold analysis concentrates on the narrative qualities of the works as well as how each text documents the writer's experience. She provides insight into how fictionalized narrative can double as historical testimony, how references to events might have become obscure owing to the passage of time and cultural diversity of readers, and how these references form new meaning in the text. Toker, well known as a skillful interpreter of gulag literature, offers new thinking about how gulag literature and Holocaust literature enable a better understanding about testimony in the face of evil
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| Emner | Ka-tzetnik 135633 , 1909-2001 : (NO-TrBIB)2090744
Levi, Primo , 1919-1987 : (NO-TrBIB)90062076 Semprun, Jorge , 1923-2011 : (NO-TrBIB)90173619 Solženicyn, Aleksandr Isaevič , 1918-2008 : (NO-TrBIB)90105070 Vis mer... Wiesel, Elie , 1928-2016 : (NO-TrBIB)90057312
Šalamov, Varlam Tichonovič , 1907-1982 : (NO-TrBIB)90082678 GULag NKVD : (NO-TrBIB)5004670 89.15 communism. : (NL-LeOCL)077608798 89.21 fascism. : (NL-LeOCL)077608828 Concentration camps in literature. : (OCoLC)fst00872945 Concentration camps. : (OCoLC)fst00872933 Gefangenenliteratur Holocaust : (NO-TrBIB)HUME08908 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. : (OCoLC)fst00958923 Konsentrasjonsleirer : (NO-TrBIB)HUME08991 Konzentrationslager Litteratur : (NO-TrBIB)HUME06452 Nationalsozialismus Nazi-Tyskland : (NO-TrBIB)HUME04159 Prisoners' writings, Soviet. : (OCoLC)fst01077309 Straflager |
| Sjanger | Criticism, interpretation, etc. : (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Geografisk emneord | Deutschland . - Soviet Union. : (OCoLC)fst01210281. - Sovjetunionen : (NO-TrBIB)HUME03767. - Sowjetunion
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| ISBN | 0253043514. - 0253043530. - 9780253043511. - 9780253043535
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