Reading for Narrative Truth Through the Absence of Narrative Awareness in Wilkomirski's Fragments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12180100 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heidi L Pennington (0000-0001-8504-7905, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-63 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | a/b Auto/Biography Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0898-9575 • E-ISSN: 2151-7290 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08989575.2013.10846817 |
| OpenAlex | W4242370281 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
This article analyzes the false Holocaust memoir, Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood by Binjamin Wilkomirski, as a case study in autobiographical truth. The author proposes close reading as a means to detect contradictions within the text and argues for a reevaluation of the pop-cultural attachment to authorial claims of factuality in autobiography
Art · Biography · Linguistics · Literature · Memoir · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · The Holocaust · Theology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |