Witness Through the Imagination: Jewish American Holocaust Literature

S. Lilian Kremer; Lilian Kremer

doi:10.1353/book.61452

Witness Through the Imagination: Jewish American Holocaust Literature

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Witness Through the Imagination: Jewish American Holocaust Literature
Book
S. Lillian Kremer
2018
Published by: Wayne State University Press
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Criticism of Holocaust literature is an emerging field of inquiry, and as might be expected, the most innovative work has been concentrated on the vanguard of European and Israeli Holocaust literature. Now that American fiction has amassed an impressive and provocative Holocaust canon, the time is propitious for its evaluation. Witness Through the Imagination presents a critical reading of themes and stylistic strategies of major American Holocaust fiction to determine its capacity to render the prelude, progress, and aftermath of the Holocaust. The unifying critical approach is the textual explication of themes and literary method, occasional comparative references to international Holocaust literature, and a discussion of extra-literary Holocaust sources that have influenced the creative writers' treatment of the Holocaust universe.