Magic realism in Holocaust literature : troping the traumatic real / Jenni Adams.

Author/creator Adams, Jenni, 1984-
Format Book
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Descriptionvii, 206 pages ; 23 cm
Electronic LocationInhaltsverzeichnis
Subjects

Portion of title Troping the traumatic real
Contents Introduction -- The dream of the end of the world: magic realism, knowledge, and Holocaust history in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is illuminated -- Magic realism and dialogic postmemory: David Grossman's See under: love -- Trauma and the grotesque body: D.M. Thomas's The white hotel -- The light of dead stars: magic realist time in André Schwarz-Bart's The last of the just -- 'Into eternity's certain breadth': ambivalent escape in Markus Zusak's The book thief -- Conclusion.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 182-201) and index.
LCCN 2011011738
ISBN9780230280298 (alk. paper)
ISBN0230280293 (alk. paper)