This book examines the complex and varied ways in which fictions relate to the real world, and offers a precise account of how imaginative works of literature can use fictional content to explore matters of universal human interest.
Encrypting the Past' puts forward the interpretative category of the first-generation German-Jewish Holocaust novel and examines its representational strategies. With reference to works by H.G. Adler, Jenny Aloni, Elisabeth Augustin, Erich Fried, and Wolfgang Hildesheimer, and a…
Encrypting the Past puts forward the literary category of the first-generation German-Jewish Holocaust novel, showing that Holocaust literature was being written decades before postwar authors such as Sebald were credited with having found new ways of reflecting the unspeakable.
Analyzes the relationship between race and genre in Toni Morrison's novels, showing how Morrison's break with traditional narrative forms work to undermine and rewrite the canon of American literature. -- from publisher description.
