Devant les grilles : les poètes juifs américains et la Shoah

Throughout history, Jewish literature has served as an effective vehicle for recalling a past that has often been traumatic. Like other Jewish writers, American Jewish poets have understood that the creative act can play a vital role in the process of remembering, a process that has often been neces...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Rubin, Steven J., Drevon, Claire
Materialtyp: Article ou chapitre numérique
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Publicerad: 2009
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spelling cairn-RHSHO_191_0039RHSHORevue d’Histoire de la Shoah https://shs.cairn.info/revue-d-histoire-de-la-shoah-2009-2-page-39?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rhsho.191.0039 Devant les grilles : les poètes juifs américains et la Shoah Rubin, Steven J.Drevon, Claire2009 fre Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah | 191 | 2 | 2009-10-14 | p. 39-56 | 2111-885X RHSHO_19130 Throughout history, Jewish literature has served as an effective vehicle for recalling a past that has often been traumatic. Like other Jewish writers, American Jewish poets have understood that the creative act can play a vital role in the process of remembering, a process that has often been necessary for survival. As the contemporary poet Gerald Stern states : “It is the poet’s job to remember… that is, to keep the past alive.” This task is not unique to poets. It is, however, interesting to note that a great many late twentieth and early twenty-first century American Jewish poets have sought through their art to imagine and somehow decipher the meaning of the loss of a culture and of six million Jewish lives. And it may be that poetry, free from the constraints of characterization, plot, setting, and verisimilitude, is the ideal form to explore and recall the most traumatic event in modern Jewish history. This essay will explore how two accomplished but very different American Jewish poets —Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) and Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) —came to view the Shoah as one of their major poetic pre-occupations.Cairn free access
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description Throughout history, Jewish literature has served as an effective vehicle for recalling a past that has often been traumatic. Like other Jewish writers, American Jewish poets have understood that the creative act can play a vital role in the process of remembering, a process that has often been necessary for survival. As the contemporary poet Gerald Stern states : “It is the poet’s job to remember… that is, to keep the past alive.” This task is not unique to poets. It is, however, interesting to note that a great many late twentieth and early twenty-first century American Jewish poets have sought through their art to imagine and somehow decipher the meaning of the loss of a culture and of six million Jewish lives. And it may be that poetry, free from the constraints of characterization, plot, setting, and verisimilitude, is the ideal form to explore and recall the most traumatic event in modern Jewish history. This essay will explore how two accomplished but very different American Jewish poets —Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) and Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) —came to view the Shoah as one of their major poetic pre-occupations.
author Rubin, Steven J.
Drevon, Claire
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Devant les grilles : les poètes juifs américains et la Shoah
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Drevon, Claire
author_sort Rubin, Steven J.
title Devant les grilles : les poètes juifs américains et la Shoah
title_short Devant les grilles : les poètes juifs américains et la Shoah
title_full Devant les grilles : les poètes juifs américains et la Shoah
title_fullStr Devant les grilles : les poètes juifs américains et la Shoah
title_full_unstemmed Devant les grilles : les poètes juifs américains et la Shoah
title_sort devant les grilles : les poètes juifs américains et la shoah
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