Helen Finch
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5778370 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Helen Finch |
| NOMBRES | Helen |
| APELLIDO | Finch |
| FIRMA | FINCH H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3063-1308 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Poesis in extremis
How did writers trapped within the temporality of the Holocaust – experiencing in real time the catastrophic destruction of their communities and knowing or sensing their own imminent murder – crea
Constructing a gay German Jewish identity in Holocaust memoirs
This article analyses five memoirs written or co-authored by self-identified German Jewish gay survivors of the Holocaust – Gad Beck, Walter Guttmann, Jerry Rosenstein, Harry Raymon and Alphons Silbermann. Each of these memoirs, all written more than 40 years after the Holocaust, differently narrates queer experiences during the Holocaust and constructs a gay Jewish identity in the face of extreme persecution and societal homophobia. In contrast …
Queer experiences in the Holocaust
No One’s Witness
Journal Article No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics. Syd Zolf Get access No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics, Syd Zolf (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021), 192 pp., cloth $99.95, paperback $25.95, electronic version available. Helen Finch Helen Finch University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3063-1308 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Geno…
A Wende in representing the Holocaust in German literature? From Jurek Becker to W. G. Sebald
This article examines Jurek Becker's 1976 novel Der Boxer and W. G. Sebald's critical essay on Becker “Ich möchte zu ihnen hinabsteigen und finde den Weg nicht. Zu den Romanen Jurek Beckers” (posthumously published in 2010) to show how they reflect the changing norms of Holocaust testimony in German literature. Becker's well‐received novel narrates the refusal of a traumatized Jewish survivor to conform to the normative expectations of Holocaust …
Transverse Disciplines
Writing the Displaced Person
This article discusses the work of the Prague Jewish writer H. G. (Hans Günther) Adler (1910–1988) as an important contribution to the poetics of German-Jewish displacement in the wake of World War II. It demonstrates the significance of Adler’s early response to questions of refugee status, displacement and human rights in literature. The article argues that Adler’s work can be seen as providing in part a response to the question raised by Hanna…
Nomadic Ethics in Contemporary Women's Writing in German. Strange Subjects
Bourdieu and Literature
The Undiscover'd Country
Markus ZISSELSBERGER (Ed.), Camden House, 2010,, ISBN 978-1-57113-4653, £50.00 (hbk), 390 pp. In the vast body of Sebald criticism that has arisen over the past ten years, a welcome feature is the
Bourdieu and Literature
The Undiscover'd Country
Markus ZISSELSBERGER (Ed.), Camden House, 2010,, ISBN 978-1-57113-4653, £50.00 (hbk), 390 pp. In the vast body of Sebald criticism that has arisen over the past ten years, a welcome feature is the
Nomadic Ethics in Contemporary Women's Writing in German. Strange Subjects
Writing the Displaced Person
This article discusses the work of the Prague Jewish writer H. G. (Hans Günther) Adler (1910–1988) as an important contribution to the poetics of German-Jewish displacement in the wake of World War II. It demonstrates the significance of Adler’s early response to questions of refugee status, displacement and human rights in literature. The article argues that Adler’s work can be seen as providing in part a response to the question raised by Hanna…
Transverse Disciplines
A Wende in representing the Holocaust in German literature? From Jurek Becker to W. G. Sebald
This article examines Jurek Becker's 1976 novel Der Boxer and W. G. Sebald's critical essay on Becker “Ich möchte zu ihnen hinabsteigen und finde den Weg nicht. Zu den Romanen Jurek Beckers” (posthumously published in 2010) to show how they reflect the changing norms of Holocaust testimony in German literature. Becker's well‐received novel narrates the refusal of a traumatized Jewish survivor to conform to the normative expectations of Holocaust …
No One’s Witness
Journal Article No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics. Syd Zolf Get access No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics, Syd Zolf (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021), 192 pp., cloth $99.95, paperback $25.95, electronic version available. Helen Finch Helen Finch University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3063-1308 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Geno…
Queer experiences in the Holocaust
Poesis in extremis
How did writers trapped within the temporality of the Holocaust – experiencing in real time the catastrophic destruction of their communities and knowing or sensing their own imminent murder – crea
Constructing a gay German Jewish identity in Holocaust memoirs
This article analyses five memoirs written or co-authored by self-identified German Jewish gay survivors of the Holocaust – Gad Beck, Walter Guttmann, Jerry Rosenstein, Harry Raymon and Alphons Silbermann. Each of these memoirs, all written more than 40 years after the Holocaust, differently narrates queer experiences during the Holocaust and constructs a gay Jewish identity in the face of extreme persecution and societal homophobia. In contrast …
German (4 obras) · Literature and Cultural Memory (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Linguistics (3 obras) · Literature (3 obras) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Poetics (3 obras) · Poetry (3 obras)