Representing the Neighbours
Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s Our Class and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12904377 |
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| Authors | Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-58 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17504902.2013.11087368 |
| OpenAlex | W1560585751 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The essay discusses two recent works of literature representing the Holocaust: a Polish play Our Class by Tadeusz Słobodzianek (2009) and an American novel Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (2002). The focus of attention is on two issues which are present in both texts: the collaboration of the local population (Polish and Ukrainian) in the crimes against the Jews during the German occupation as well as various ways of experimenting with language when speaking about antisemitism and the Holocaust. The problem of the neighbour turned perpetrator is scrutinised and linguistic strategies used by both authors shown, such as distortions of grammar, incoherence, allusion, significant words or literary quotations
Allusion · Antisemitism · Art · German · Grammar · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · The Holocaust · Theology · Ukrainian · Central European Literary Studies · Classics · History · Language and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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