Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence
Francophone Jewish Poetry of the Shoah, 1939–2008
Seiten
2024
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New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-63667-614-2 (ISBN)
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-63667-614-2 (ISBN)
This book engages with an extensive corpus of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Shoah written from 1939 to the present day. The study places the poetry in its different social, political, and historical contexts, and argues for its legitimate place in current debates concerning French-language literary representations of the Shoah.
In this groundbreaking study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Shoah, Gary D. Mole engages with an extensive corpus of poetry by more than forty poets, all of whom were active after the war in France, Belgium, Switzerland, or Quebec but who came originally from Eastern Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East. Some were adolescents or adults during the war, either in hiding, interned or deported, first-hand witnesses to the Nazi persecution of European Jews. Others were hidden children, survivors writing of their buried traumatic experiences many years later. And a second-generation born after the war became postmemory proxy witnesses. Broadly chronological in approach, the book places the poetry in its various social, political, and historical contexts, underlines the specific geographical locations of the authors, and offers close thematic, formal, stylistic, and linguistic readings of the selected texts, highlighting some of the major aesthetic and ethical problems raised. Lucidly written, this book throws critical light, for scholars and nonspecialists, on a rich and unjustly neglected corpus, arguing convincingly for its inclusion in current debates on French-language literary representations of the Shoah and more widely in what is commonly referred to as "Holocaust Poetry."
"Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence is a comprehensive, lucid, and erudite study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Holocaust. Unlike the work of English-language Holocaust poets, French-language verse has been until now largely ignored. By ensuring that Francophone Jewish poets are finally heard, Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence constitutes an important scholarly intervention in the study of Holocaust literature."
—Helena Duffy, Professor of French, University of Wrocław, Poland
"An astonishing, comparative, comprehensive, and powerful scan of the various forms of poetic writing in French about the Shoah, never presented in this scope before, by authors belonging to a large variety of national and cultural backgrounds, providing the foundation of texts to be considered in future scholarship on poetry of the Shoah in other languages."
—Thomas Nolden, Professor of Comparative Literary Studies, Wellesley College, Mass
In this groundbreaking study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Shoah, Gary D. Mole engages with an extensive corpus of poetry by more than forty poets, all of whom were active after the war in France, Belgium, Switzerland, or Quebec but who came originally from Eastern Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East. Some were adolescents or adults during the war, either in hiding, interned or deported, first-hand witnesses to the Nazi persecution of European Jews. Others were hidden children, survivors writing of their buried traumatic experiences many years later. And a second-generation born after the war became postmemory proxy witnesses. Broadly chronological in approach, the book places the poetry in its various social, political, and historical contexts, underlines the specific geographical locations of the authors, and offers close thematic, formal, stylistic, and linguistic readings of the selected texts, highlighting some of the major aesthetic and ethical problems raised. Lucidly written, this book throws critical light, for scholars and nonspecialists, on a rich and unjustly neglected corpus, arguing convincingly for its inclusion in current debates on French-language literary representations of the Shoah and more widely in what is commonly referred to as "Holocaust Poetry."
"Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence is a comprehensive, lucid, and erudite study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Holocaust. Unlike the work of English-language Holocaust poets, French-language verse has been until now largely ignored. By ensuring that Francophone Jewish poets are finally heard, Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence constitutes an important scholarly intervention in the study of Holocaust literature."
—Helena Duffy, Professor of French, University of Wrocław, Poland
"An astonishing, comparative, comprehensive, and powerful scan of the various forms of poetic writing in French about the Shoah, never presented in this scope before, by authors belonging to a large variety of national and cultural backgrounds, providing the foundation of texts to be considered in future scholarship on poetry of the Shoah in other languages."
—Thomas Nolden, Professor of Comparative Literary Studies, Wellesley College, Mass
Gary D. Mole is Professor in Modern and Contemporary French Literature and Culture at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He has published extensively on Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Edmond Jabes, and Bruno Durocher, as well as on poetry of the Great War, poetry of the deportation, and French literary representations of the Second World War and the Shoah.
Foreword – Acknowledgments – Introduction – The Jewish Poetry of Resistance, 1939–1946 – Shock, Accusation, Commemoration, 1946–1956 – Intermezzo, 1960–1964 – Memory and Anti-Shoah Denial, 1970–1996 – Poetry at the Turn of the Millennium, 2001–2008 – Conclusion – Bibliography – Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 259 |
| Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Tamara Alvarez-Detrell, Michael G. Paulson |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 225 mm |
| Gewicht | 525 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-63667-614-6 / 1636676146 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-63667-614-2 / 9781636676142 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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