Jewish ghosts
Haunting and hospitality in Shalom Auslander’s Hope
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12904381 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth Gilbert (0000-0001-9347-2709, University of Winchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 240-258 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17504902.2017.1411021 |
| OpenAlex | W2737541626 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article explores the Jewish ghost motif in Shalom Auslander’s novel, Hope (2012). In particular, it focuses on the Holocaust and its ongoing reverberations within Jewish consciousness The ghost that incites the narrative is Anne Frank, reimagined by Auslander as an aged revenant who is discovered in the attic of an upstate New York home. Drawing from the work of Stephen Frosh, Susan Shapiro, and Avery Gordon, my analysis looks at matters of refracted cultural memory, vicarious victimhood, intergenerational haunting, intertextuality, and the uncanny Jewish body
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Autoethnography · Consciousness · Hospitality · Judaism · Literature · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Shalom · Sociology · The Holocaust · Theology · Tourism · Uncanny · Anthropology · German History and Society · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |