Writing the Unspeakable: Language, Memory and Trauma In Survival in Auschwitz, Still Alive and Nightfather Öffentlichkeit
Malsin, Mikaela Janet (2010)
Abstract
Abstract
A theme of "incomprehensibility" pervades discourse surrounding the
Holocaust. Despite
the notion that the attempt to annihilate European Jewry has been
deemed "unspeakable,"
many survivors have written accounts of the events they witnessed.
This thesis explores
the problems of language in relation to the Holocaust through the
analysis of two
memoirs by Holocaust survivors and one "post-memoir" by the
daughter of a survivor:
Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz, Ruth Kluger's Still
Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood
Remembered, and Carl Friedman's Nightfather. I
analyze the ways in which each writer
overcomes the problems of inexpressibility in order to tell his or
her story.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1: Primo Levi: Writing As
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Chapter 2: Ruth Kluger: Trauma and Witnessing
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Chapter 3: Carl Friedman: The Power of
Postmemory........................................... 40
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Works Cited
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