Shaking words
Memoir as confrontation in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12904348 |
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| Authors | Emma Domínguez-Rué (0000-0002-9718-0110, Universitat de Lleida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 514-527 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17504902.2018.1471640 |
| OpenAlex | W2803404222 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Death is the unusual narrator of The Book Thief (2005), a fictional memoir set in Bavaria at the onset of WWII. Liesel Meminger's foster parents decide to help a German Jew, an event that will catalyze major changes in their lives and which will in turn be embedded in Liesel's account. This paper attempts at analyzing the role of words and how they symbolically recover the stories of those who were silenced: Liesel's memoirs thus become acts of confrontation against the destructive potential of the Nazi discourse that provide further nuances to the interaction between fiction and historical accounts
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Event (particle physics · German · Linguistics · Literature · Memoir · Nazism · Political science · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · World War II · Computer Science · German History and Society · History · Law · Literature and Cultural Memory · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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