{"product_id":"textual-silence-unreadability-and-the-holocaust-hardback-9780813589909","title":"Textual Silence; Unreadability and the Holocaust (Hardback) 9780813589909","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTextual Silence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eUnreadability and the Holocaust\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJessica Lang (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813589909\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 August 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages, 10 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"A valuable and timely resource that speaks to the necessity of ethical reading in regard to Holocaust representation.\" \u003c\/div\u003e - Victoria Aarons (O.R. \u0026amp; Eva Mitchell Endowed Chair in Literature, Trinity University) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Lang's exquisitely wrought study defines and explores the challenges of reading trauma literature, shedding light on the irony that reading does not equate to understanding.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Alan L. Berger (Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThere are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In \u003ci\u003eTextual Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself is a barrier between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts-and that this barrier is not a lack of substance, but a defining characteristic of the genre.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Holocaust texts, which encompass works as diverse as memoirs, novels, poems, and diaries, are traditionally characterized by silences the authors place throughout the text, both deliberately and unconsciously. While a reader may have the desire and will to comprehend the Holocaust, the presence of “textual silence” is a force that removes the experience of genocide from the reader’s analysis and imaginative recourse. Lang defines silences as omissions that take many forms, including the use of italics and quotation marks, ellipses and blank pages in poetry, and the presence of unreliable narrators in fiction. While this limits the reader’s ability to read in any conventional sense, these silences are not flaws. They are instead a critical presence that forces readers to acknowledge how words and meaning can diverge in the face of events as unimaginable as those of the Holocaust.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1 Readability and Unreadability: A Fractured Dialogue 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I\u003cbr\u003e Generational Differences in Holocaust Literature\u003cbr\u003e 2 Before, During, and After: Reading and the Eyewitness 35\u003cbr\u003e 3 Reading to Belong: Second-Generation and the Audience of Self 58\u003cbr\u003e 4 The Third Generation’\u003cbr\u003es Holocaust: The Story of Time and Place 87\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II\u003cbr\u003e Pushed to the Edges: The Holocaust in American Fiction\u003cbr\u003e 5 American Fiction and the Act of Genocide 119\u003cbr\u003e 6 Receding into the Distance: The Holocaust as Background 155\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Reading the Fragments of Memory 175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 179\u003cbr\u003e Notes 181\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 199\u003cbr\u003e Index 209 \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563715686680,"sku":"9780813589909","price":94.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/textual-silence-unreadability-and-the-holocaust-hardback-9780813589909","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}