Paloff Worlds Apart

Genre and the Ethics of Representing Camps, Ghettos, and Besieged Cities
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-56062-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch

Worlds Apart explores the ethics of representation by reading the works of twentieth-century writers who use the techniques of literary fiction to depict survival in concentration camps, ghettos, and besieged cities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paloff, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note on Translation and Transliteration
Have We Been Misreading the Camps? (An Introduction)
1. Fraud
2. Parabiography
3. Real-Life Fiction
4. Comedy
5. Horror
Why Read Camp Literature? (A Conclusion)
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Paloff is professor of Slavic languages and literatures and of comparative literature at the University of Michigan. His books include Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe (2016) and The Politics: Poems (2011), and he has translated many works from Polish, Czech, Russian, and Yiddish.