{"product_id":"the-subject-of-holocaust-fiction-paperback-softback-9780253016300","title":"The Subject of Holocaust Fiction (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253016300","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Subject of Holocaust Fiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEmily Miller Budick (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253016300\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 May 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e266 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.381 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\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Subject of Holocaust Fiction is a profoundly challenging work of literary criticism by a brave critic who asks us to look beyond the difficult hard facts of the Holocaust to the complex subjectivities of all those affected by it, a scholar whose final legacy to us is the insistence that the subject of humanities scholarship must ultimately and always be the human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e (Studies in Contemporary Jewry) \u003cp\u003eE. M. Budick's The Subject of Holocaust Fiction is a timely addition to the steadily growing academic canon on Holocaust fiction. . . As Budick rightly acknowledges, it is . . . self-scrutiny performed both by its writers and by its readers, that makes Holocaust fiction so important and that should ensure its future standing.\u003c\/p\u003e (Literature and History) \u003cp\u003eBudick (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents new readings of well-known and understudied but significant texts of Holocaust fiction. . . This is an important contribution to literary studies. . . . Highly recommended.V.47 2016\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003e[E]xamining the themes of mourning, memory, and love, and considering the relationship of the Holocaust to apartheid and animal slaughter, the author provides a framework for students of literature, history, religion, philosophy, and ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e (American Reference Book Annual) \u003cp\u003eGathers together almost a dozen essays on key Holocaust writers, from Cynthia Ozick and William Styron (in his role as the author of Sophie's Choice) to W. G. Sebald and Art Spiegelman. 5\/11\/16\u003c\/p\u003e (Times Literary Supplement) \u003cp\u003eEmily Miller Budick packs an astonishing number of texts into The Subject of Holocaust Fiction and explores them through a number of lenses. Students and scholars of comparative literatures, Holocaust studies, or trauma and psychology in literature will all find something of interest, and for those familiar with many of the above texts the intertextual reading the author weaves through the book makes it a useful new resource.\u003c\/p\u003e (Holocaust Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the epistemological, psychological, and ethical issues underlying Holocaust fiction, Emily Miller Budick examines the subjective experiences of fantasy, projection, and repression manifested in Holocaust fiction and in the reader's encounter with it. Considering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: Ghostwriting the Holocaust: The Ghost Writer, The Diary, The Kindly Ones, and Me\u003cbr\u003eSection One: Psychoanalytic Listening and Fictions of the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e1. Voyeurism, Complicated Mourning, and the Fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl\u003cbr\u003e2. Forced Confessions: Subject Position, Framing, and the \"Art\" of Spiegelman's Maus\u003cbr\u003e3. Aryeh Lev Stollman's Far Euphrates: Re-picturing the Pre-Memory Moment\u003cbr\u003eSection Two: Golems, Ghosts, Idols, and Messiahs: Complicated Mourning and the Inter-textual Construction of a Jewish Symptom\u003cbr\u003e4. Bruno Schulz, the Messiah, and Ghost\/writing the Past\u003cbr\u003e5. A Jewish History of Blocked Mourning and Love\u003cbr\u003e6. See Under: Mourning\u003cbr\u003eSection Three: Mourning Becomes the Nations: Styron, Schlink, Sebald\u003cbr\u003e7. Blacks, Jews, and Southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice\u003cbr\u003e8. (Re)Reading the Holocaust from a German Point of View: Berhard Schlink's The Reader\u003cbr\u003e9. Mourning and Melancholia in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Holocaust, Apartheid, and the Slaughter of Animals: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Cora Diamond's \"Difficulty of Reality\"\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685348569368,"sku":"9780253016300","price":22.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-subject-of-holocaust-fiction-paperback-softback-9780253016300","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}