The Creation of a “Survivor” in Contemporary Israeli Holocaust Novels
This article focuses on contemporary Hebrew fiction about the Holocaust and investigates how protagonists who belong to the second and the third generation identify themselves as “authentic” Holocaust survivors. As a result of this adopted identity and the misconception of reality that goes along wi...
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| Argitaratua izan da: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/td, |
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| Formatua: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Hizkuntza: | Anglais |
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2024
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | This article focuses on contemporary Hebrew fiction about the Holocaust and investigates how protagonists who belong to the second and the third generation identify themselves as “authentic” Holocaust survivors. As a result of this adopted identity and the misconception of reality that goes along with it, the relations between victims and perpetrators become fluid. While most of the protagonists embrace the faked fate of being a Holocaust victim, others fashion themselves as monstrous individuals or Nazis. While looking into the collective memory of the Shoah in twenty-first century Israel, this article seeks to provide an explanation for these literary developments. |
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