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TexTual Silence Te x Tua l Si len ce unreadability and the Holocaust Jessica Lang Rutgers University Press new Brunswick, camden, and newark, new Jersey, and london Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Lang, Jessica, 1973- author. Title: Textual silence : unreadability and the Holocaust / Jessica Lang. Other titles: Unreadability and the Holocaust Description: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016044027| ISBN 9780813589909 (hardback) | ISBN 9780813589916 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780813589923 (e-book (epub)) | ISBN 9780813589930 (e-book (Web PDF)) | ISBN 9780813589947 (e-book (Mobi)) Subjects: LCSH: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. | Silence in literature. | Memory in literature. | Mimesis in literature. | Realism in literature. | Literature, Modern—20th century—History and criticism. | Literature, Modern— 21st century—History and criticism. | BISAC: LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. Classification: LCC PN56.H55 L36 2017 | DDC 809/.93358405318—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016044027 Copyright © 2017 by Jessica Lang All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. c The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1992. www .rutgersuniversitypress .org Manufactured in the United States of America To my family conTenTS Introduction 1 1 Readability and Unreadability: A Fractured Dialogue 9 Part I Generational Differences in Holocaust Literature 2 Before, During, and After: Reading and the Eyewitness 35 3 Reading to Belong: Second- Generation and the Audience of Self 58 4 The Third Generation’s Holocaust: The Story of Time and Place 87 Part II Pushed to the Edges: The Holocaust in American Fiction 5 American Fiction and the Act of Genocide 119 6 Receding into the Distance: The Holocaust as Background 155 Afterword: Reading the Fragments of Memory 175 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 181 Bibliography 199 Index 209 TexTual Silence
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