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"The first volume to explore both the academic and personal journeys of scholars working in the field of Holocaust literature and representation"--
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Phyllis Lassner
This critical biography is part of a series that helps in the reassessment of women’s writing in the light of what we understand today. All the books in the series…
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Lassner’s analysis reveals how writers such as Muriel Spark, Olivia Manning, Rumer Godden, Phyllis Bottome, Elspeth Huxley and Zadie Smith insist that World War II is critical to understanding how…
The first narrative analysis of mid-twentieth century British spy thrillers demonstrating their critiques of political responses to the dangers of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism.
Elizabeth Maslen
Elizabeth Maslen’s excellent biography offers a fresh look at the intersection of Jameson’s life and work and the way these intersected with figures from Rebecca West to Arthur Koeslter to…
Brings together a range of original essays that address different aspects of the role and presence of Jews and Jewishness in British film and television from the interwar period to…
Few countries attribute as much importance to the Second World War and its memory as Britain. Long Shadows is about how literature and film have helped shape this process. More…
The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation.
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Features essays that provide a reappraisal of discussions of antisemitism and philosemitism. This title features contributors from political theory, film, English and history who demonstrate that analysis of philosemitic attitudes…
Ava Kadishson Schieber
Author, poet and artist Ava Kadishson Schieber was born in a town near Belgrade and spent her teenage years hiding from the Nazis on a Serbian farm. In the drawings…
The most complete collection to date of the memoirs of hidden children of the Holocaust.
Rachel S. Harris
Examines literary challenges to Israel’s national narratives. Using the image of suicide, A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, Etgar Keret, Yehudit Katzir, Alon Hilu, Yaakov Shabtai, Benjamin Tammuz, and Yehoshua Kenaz…
The first volume to explore both the academic and personal journeys of scholars working in the field of Holocaust literature and representation –
Lucy Le-Guilcher
From 1929 to 1997, Rumer Godden published more than 60 books, including novels, biographies, children’s books, and poetry. Focusing on Godden’s writing from the 1930s onward, this title demonstrates the…
Gisella Perl
Gisella Perl’s memoir is an extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. It was the first memoir by a woman survivor and established the model for understanding…
