Legacies of the Shoah in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated and Arnon Grunberg’s De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah]

Legacies of the Shoah in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated and Arnon Grunberg’s De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah]

This article compares Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by American author Jonathan Safran Foer to De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah] (2004) by Dutch author Arnon Grunberg. Both novels contribute to ongoing discussions about Holocaust representation in the face of a generation temporally and spat...

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Holocaust
trauma
temporality
second generation
third generation
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:td_22913 en https://journals.openedition.org/td/22913 2024-08-08T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/125jl https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Legacies of the Shoah in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated and Arnon Grunberg’s De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah] Teksty Drugie The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2545-2061 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0867-0633 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/td Minslow, Sarah Holocaust trauma temporality second generation third generation This article compares Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by American author Jonathan Safran Foer to De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah] (2004) by Dutch author Arnon Grunberg. Both novels contribute to ongoing discussions about Holocaust representation in the face of a generation temporally and spatially removed from the historical events. Ultimately, by blurring temporalities, focusing on what families inherit, and using humor these novels emphasize human agency in atrocity and the impossibilities of reconciliation by highlighting the capacity humans have for hurting one another and the limits of forgiveness.
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topic Holocaust
trauma
temporality
second generation
third generation
spellingShingle Holocaust
trauma
temporality
second generation
third generation
Minslow, Sarah
Legacies of the Shoah in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated and Arnon Grunberg’s De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah]
description This article compares Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by American author Jonathan Safran Foer to De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah] (2004) by Dutch author Arnon Grunberg. Both novels contribute to ongoing discussions about Holocaust representation in the face of a generation temporally and spatially removed from the historical events. Ultimately, by blurring temporalities, focusing on what families inherit, and using humor these novels emphasize human agency in atrocity and the impossibilities of reconciliation by highlighting the capacity humans have for hurting one another and the limits of forgiveness.
author Minslow, Sarah
author_facet Minslow, Sarah
author_sort Minslow, Sarah
title Legacies of the Shoah in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated and Arnon Grunberg’s De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah]
title_short Legacies of the Shoah in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated and Arnon Grunberg’s De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah]
title_full Legacies of the Shoah in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated and Arnon Grunberg’s De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah]
title_fullStr Legacies of the Shoah in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated and Arnon Grunberg’s De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah]
title_full_unstemmed Legacies of the Shoah in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated and Arnon Grunberg’s De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah]
title_sort legacies of the shoah in jonathan safran foer’s everything is illuminated and arnon grunberg’s de joodse messias [the jewish messiah]
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