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Author:

Brenner, Rachel Feldhay, 1946-

Title:

Writing as resistance : four women confronting the Holocaust : Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum / Rachel Feldhay Brenner.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

vi, 216 p. ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Sources.
Stein, Edith,--Saint,--1891-1942.
Weil, Simone,--1909-1943.
Frank, Anne,--1929-1945.
Hillesum, Etty,--1914-1943.
Autobiography--Women authors.
Jewish women in the Holocaust--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.
Women and literature--History--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Women.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-207) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Meanings of Resistance -- The Dis/Continued Dialogue with the Enlightenment -- The Ongoing Edification of the Self -- The Transcending Consciousness of the Other -- Between Ecumenism and Anti-Judaism -- Stein and Weil: Diverging Responses to Jewish and Christian Traditions -- Stein and Weil: Between Self-Affirmation and Self-Reunification -- Frank and Hillesum: Identity and the Search for God -- Where Art and Self Meet -- Stein and Weil: Displaced Autobiographical Selves -- Frank and Hillesum: The Diarists as Growing Artists -- Gender Consciousness in the Rule of Terror -- Stein and Weil: Women's Nature and Destiny -- Toward Intellectual and Emotional Maturity -- Conclusion: Legacies of resistance

ISBN:

9780271016238 (alk. paper)
027101623X (alk. paper)
027102285X
9780271022857

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34767437

LCCN:

96020613

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

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