Stähler, Axel (2021). Et in Ashkenazia ego: Utopias of the Holocaust? Holocaust studies: a journal of culture and history, 28(2), pp. 143-162. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/17504902.2021.1910438
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This article interrogates examples of alternative histories in contemporary British Jewish writing which redraw and reinterpret the topography of the Holocaust. More specifically, it explores the tensions which arise in Clive Sinclair’s short story ‘Ashkenazia’ (1980) and Dan Jacobson’s novel The God-Fearer (1992) between notions of a Jewish heterotopia, the re-inscription of historical topographies, and the imaginary of the Holocaust. Set in an imaginary Jewish state, which is mapped onto the pre-existing Jewish topography of the loosely defined Ashkenaz of historical reality, both texts unfold alternative histories which, though imagined, nevertheless cannot un-think the historical occurrence of the Holocaust.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures > American Studies |
UniBE Contributor: |
Stähler, Axel |
Subjects: |
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 820 English & Old English literatures |
ISSN: |
1750-4902 |
Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Axel Stähler |
Date Deposited: |
21 Jul 2021 10:23 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:50 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1080/17504902.2021.1910438 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/155939 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/155939 |
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