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03441aam a2200409 i 4500 001 0377D93ECD0211ECB5E908A224ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220506010041 008 210819s2022 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021035383 020 $a 164014062X 020 $a 9781640140622 035 $a (OCoLC)1269417926 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d DLC $d OCLCO $d OBE $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ge--- 050 00 $a PT3707 F69 2022 100 1 $a Fox, Thomas C., $e author. 245 10 $a In the shadow of the Holocaust : $b Jewish-Communist writers in East Germany / $c Thomas C. Fox. 264 1 $a Rochester, New York : $b Camden House, $c 2022. 300 $a viii, 201 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index. 520 $a "This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights the conflicted writings of six East German Jewish writers: Anna Seghers (1900-1983), Stefan Heym (1913-2001), Stephan Hermlin (1915-1997), Jurek Becker (1937-1997), Peter Edel (1921-1983), and Fred Wander (1917-2006). All were Holocaust survivors. All lost family members in the Holocaust. All were important writers who played a leading role in East German cultural life, and all were loyal citizens and committed socialists, although their definitions and maneuvers regarding Party loyalty differed greatly. Good soldiers, they viewed their writing as contributing to the social-political revolution taking place in East Germany. Informed by Holocaust and trauma studies, as well as psychology and deconstruction, this study looks for moments when Party discipline falters and other, repressed, thoughts and emotions surface, decentering the works. Some recurring questions addressed include: What is the image of Germans? Do the works evidence revenge fantasies? How does the negotiation of ostensibly mutually exclusive identities play out? Is there acknowledgement of the insufficiency of Communist theory to explain anti-Semitism, as well as recognition of Stalinist or other forms of Communist anti-Semitism? Although these writers ultimately established themselves in East Germany, attaining positions of privilege and even power, their best works nonetheless evince an acute sense of endangerment and vulnerability; they are documents both created and marked by trauma"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a German literature $z Germany (East) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a German literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Communism and literature $z Germany (East) 650 0 $a Holocaust survivors' writings $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 650 0 $a Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. 776 08 $i Online version : $a Fox, Thomas C. $t In the shadow of the holocaust $d Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2022 $z 9781787448087 $w (DLC) 2021035384 830 0 $a Dialogue and disjunction. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014615.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220802020914.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0377D93ECD0211ECB5E908A224ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search