Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust Displaced Witnesses

by Lassner, Phyllis

• ISBN13: 9780230202580
• ISBN10: 0230202586
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In its analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, by showing how these writers complicate theories of trauma and memory by using fantasy and the Gothic as a response to silence.

Author Biography

PHYLLIS LASSNER teaches Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, and Writing at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA. She is the author of two books on Elizabeth Bowen, British Women Writers of World War II,Colonial Strangers and many articles on interwar and wartime women writers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Other People's Houses: Remembering the Kindertransport	p. 19
Karen Gershon: Stranger from the Kindertransport	p. 48
Dramas of the Kindertransport and Its Aftermath	p. 75
The Transgenerational Haunting of Anne Karpf and Lisa Appignanesi	p. 103
Elaine Feinstein's Holocaust Imagination	p. 129
Displaced Witnesses: Julia Pascal's and Sue Frumin's Holocaust Dramas	p. 156
Afterword	p. 186
Notes	p. 190
Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 219
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