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04086aam a2200373 i 4500 001 6516940CDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 200914s2021 miua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2020945975 020 $a 0814348343 020 $a 9780814348345 020 $a 0814346146 020 $a 9780814346143 035 $a (OCoLC)1200197871 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d CBY $d OCLCO $d J9U $d NLGGC $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a PN56.H55 $b M34 2021 082 04 $a 809/.93358 $2 23 100 1 $a McGlothlin, Erin Heather, $e author. 245 14 $a The mind of the Holocaust perpetrator in fiction and nonfiction / $c Erin McGlothlin. 264 1 $a Detroit, Michigan : $b Wayne State University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xii, 347 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction examines texts that portray the inner experience of Holocaust perpetrators and thus transform them from archetypes of evil into complex psychological and moral subjects. Employing relevant methodological tools of narrative theory, Erin McGlothlin analyzes these unsettling depictions, which manifest a certain tension regarding the ethics of representation and identification. Such works, she asserts, endeavor to make transparent the mindset of their violent subjects, yet at the same time they also invariably contrive to obfuscate in part its disquieting character. The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction contains two parts. The first focuses on portraits of real-life perpetrators in nonfictional interviews and analyses from the 1960s and 1970s. These works provide a nuanced perspective on the mentality of the people who implemented the Holocaust via the interventional role of the interviewer or interpreter in the perpetrators' performances of self-disclosure. In part two, McGlothlin investigates more recent fictional texts that imagine the perspective of their invented perpetrator-narrators. Such works draw readers directly into the perpetrator's experience and at the same time impede their access to the perpetrator's consciousness by retarding their affective connection. Demonstrating that recent fiction featuring perpetrators as narrators employs strategies derived from earlier nonfictional portrayals, McGlothlin establishes not only a historical connection between these two groups of texts, whereby nonfictional engagement with real-life perpetrators gradually gives way to fictional exploration, but also a structural and aesthetic one. The book bespeaks new modes of engagement with ethically fraught questions raised by our increasing willingness to consider the events of the Holocaust from the perspective of the perpetrator. Students, scholars, and readers of Holocaust studies and literary criticism will appreciate this closer look at a historically taboo topic"-- $c Provided by publisher 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part 1: Probing the Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Nonfiction : Mind-Reading Eichmann: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, Harry Mulisch's Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann, and William L. Hull's The Struggle for a Soul -- Interpellating the Perpetrator: Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness -- Part 2: Imagining the Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction : Perpetrators on the Run: Edgar Hilsenrath's The Nazi and the Barber and Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones -- The Perpetrator Mind Divided: Martin Amis's Time's Arrow and The Zone of Interest. 648 7 $a 1939-1945 $2 fast 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) $x Psychological aspects. 650 7 $a Psychological aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354086 650 7 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958923 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014919.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6516940CDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search